Alessandrina Ravizza Park

Town Hall 5
Arrival: viale Toscana, via Bocconi
Opening hours: free access
How to Get There:: bus 79 - trolleybus 90/91

Area 62.900 m²
Year of creation: 1905
Designer: Francesco Tettamanzi

What to do at the park:

  •  equipped play area;
  • rea with funicular and carousel;
  • stroll;
  • workout area on via Bach;
  • running and cycling along the avenues: a BikeMi station is in via Bocconi on the corner of Ravizza;
  • stop and relax;
  • there are 3 fixed kiosks (viale Toscana open only at night);
  • 3 dog areas;
  • The park is equipped with a chemical toilet in via Vittadini; in spring-summer, mobile toilets also for disabled people.

The park in brief

The park is dedicated to Alessandrina Ravizza, a feminist ante litteram and strong-willed creator of projects in favor of the weakest. Intended as a green area in the first master plan of the city, the Beruto plan of 1889, was created in 1905 when the area was transformed from agricultural to residential. The area, home to the Camporicco farmhouse, became a park to offer refreshment to the new inhabitants of the newly built popular neighborhoods.

The park was originally rectangular and crossed by a tree-lined avenue that divided it into two parts: a geometric Italian garden and a picturesque English one. This different articulation of the greenery is no longer recognizable and the park, with lawns and tall trees such as maples, pines, oaks and plane trees, is very popular with students from the nearby Bocconi university, children, adults and local residents.

The flooring is asphalt and concrete and the park is periodically monitored by the GEV.

Named after the benefactress Alessandrina Massini Ravizza (1846-1915), the park was planned in 1889 by the Beruto master plan, but was only built between 1903 and 1905 when the area, which had until then been agricultural, was urbanised, many neighborhoods of public housing and the need arose to create "a shady meeting place" as the designer Tettamanzi defined it.

Thus it was that the area previously occupied by Cascina Camporicco became the Ravizza Park. The park, with a rectangular plan, was originally crossed from north to south by a tree-lined axis and was divided into two separate gardens: one with an "Italian-style" geometric scheme and one with an informal "English-style" design.

The complexity of the original design gradually disappeared due to the construction of the university center and the subsequent redesign of the neighborhood after the war. Currently the park maintains its quadrangular structure and is divided into two parts by Viale Brahms.

The municipal administration has implemented a redevelopment program in the Porta Lodovica area which includes the creation of the Culture Park, whose project also takes into account the relationship with the Ravizza Park.

Main tree species

  • Constantinople acacia (Albizia julibrissin)
  • silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
  • field maple (Acer campestre)
  • sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus)
  • Norway maple (Acer platanoides)
  • tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
  • Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum)
  • hackberry (Celtis australis)
  • white birch (Betula pendula)
  • Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica glauca)
  • Himalayan cedar (Cedrus deodara)
  • mulberry (Morus alba)
  • ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
  • horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
  • negundo (Acer negundo)
  • paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa)
  • pines (Pinus nigra and P. wallichiana)
  • Cypress poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica')
  • plane trees (Platanus x acerifolia and P. Occidentalis)
  • red oak (Quercus rubra)
  • sophora (Sophora japonica)
  • Judas thorn (Gleditsia triacanthos)
  • American styrax (Liquidambar styraciflua)
  • hybrid lime tree (Tilia hybrida)
     

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Updated: 17/04/2024