Perego Garden

Town Hall 1
Arrival: via dei Giardini
Timetables:

January and February: 7:00 - 19:00
March: 7am - 00pm
April: 7am - 00pm
May to September: 7am - 00pm
October: 7am - 00pm
November and December: 7:00 - 19:00

How to Get There:: M3 Turati or Montenapoleone - tram 1/bus 61

Area: 4.200 mXNUMX.
Year of realization: 1778
Restoration: 1941, Municipality Technical Office of Milan
Designer: Luigi Canonica

What to do at the park:

• equipped play area;
• stroll;
• stop and relax;

The park in brief

The original garden, owned by the Perego family of Cremnago, extended as far as via Borgonuovo thanks to the annexation, which took place at the end of the 700th century, of the gardens of the suppressed Monastery of Sant'Erasmo and had a formal design with rectangular parterres and a central fishpond elliptical in shape (designed by the architect Luigi Canonica).
Subsequently it was transformed into an "English" garden (as indicated by Canonica himself and created by the head gardener Villoresi), sacrificing the fishpond, the neo-Gothic greenhouse of the Canonica and creating some suggestive clearings.
Starting from 1925 the problem of the station-city center connection caused significant rearrangements in the city building structure which also affected the garden area, which were only partially spared by De Finetti's variant.
In 1940 the Municipality established an agreement with the Perego family for the sale of part of the garden to be used as a roadway and public garden.
All the original statues, except one, remained the property of the Perego family and were moved.
In this lovely garden the "English style" prevails, which despite the urban planning changes that have taken place, maintains the charm of a garden from times gone by.

A periodic surveillance service is active by the GEV, the Volunteer Ecological Guards.