Adriano Park

Town Hall 2
Arrival: via Adriano
Timetables: free access
How to Get There:: bus 53 | 56

Area: 120.000 sqm
Year of realization: 2004/2007
Designer: Franco Giorgetta

What to do at the park

  • 4 play areas
  • picnic area with tables and benches
  • walk
  • stop and relax
  • running and cycling
  • 2 basketball courts
  • 2 dog area

The park in brief

The park is located north-east of Milan, on the border with Sesto San Giovanni, where Magneti Marelli once stood. Created as part of a residential project which involved the construction of homes, it is a large garden that allows children and teenagers to carry out recreational activities, motor activities for adults and recreational activities for everyone, with paths to walk along and picnic tables.

It consists of a large central lawn surrounded by tree-lined areas and avenues. While walking you can see maples, ash trees, locust trees, liquidambar trees and a forest of young oaks, while different ornamental shrubs ensure a continuity of blooms and colors throughout the year.

Starting from Adriano park, it is possible to reach on foot or by bicycle, other nearby public gardens, different in history, composition, size and vegetation: the historic Trotter park with the Casa del Sole, open to the public on weekends, the garden of nineteenth-century Villa Finzi and the former Martesana park, now called the Martyrs of Freedom.

There is the Adriano District Volunteer Association and, periodically, a surveillance service by the GEV, Volunteer Ecological Guards.

The park is part of a major urbanization project which includes greenery created to offset urbanization costs in several lots.

The overall project of the neighborhood was drawn up with particular attention to the organization of public spaces intended to offer a high standard of comfort, sociability and services, in a logic of integration of numerous functions (residences, services, offices, commerce, recreational and leisure activities).

As regards services, nursery schools, a center for the elderly, a cultural center, a university residence and various leisure facilities are planned. Adriano Park fits perfectly into the neighborhood; in fact, in the residential area there are tree-lined avenues with ground cover, grassy roundabouts and within the park play areas, sports fields, spaces for free use by animals, rest and picnic areas.

At the end of 2007 the park was affected by a tree growth intervention which planted around 300 trees in addition to those already planted; the trees were placed in groups and in wooded strips and in double rows.

A third lot is planned which will affect the remaining surface area included in the overall intervention plan and which will include an increase in the overall equipment of the park with play-recreational facilities, dog areas, cycle paths and areas dedicated to sports.

Main tree species

  • American maple (Acer negundo)
  • sycamore maple (Acer pseuoplatanus)
  • beech (Fagus sylvatica)
  • common ash (Fraxinus exclesior)
  • mulberry (Morus alba)
  • liquidambar (Liquidambar styraciflua)
  • manna ash (Fraxinus ornus)
  • poplars (Populus alba, P. nigra)
  • Cypress poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica')
  • common plane tree (Platanus x acerifolia)
  • oaks (Quercus palustris, Quercus rubra and Quercus robur)
  • black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
  • willow (Salix alba)

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Updated: 02/01/2023