Antonio Annarumma Park

Town Hall 7
Arrival: via Beltrami, via Lucerna
Opening hours: free admission
How to Get There:: MM1 Bisceglie or Deceptions; bus: 49 | 58 | 63 | 78

Area: 55.000 sqm
Year of realization: 2000
Designer: Milan Municipality Technical Office

What to do at the park

playground
walk
stop and relax
running and cycling
3 dog areas

The park in brief

The park, dedicated to the agent Antonio Annarumma, has an irregular shape and extends towards the Calchi-Taeggi fountain system and the Cave Park.

There are several specific features of this park: the first is given by a sinuous shape of the land and a hill with thick vegetation that touches the nearby fountain; the second is due to the presence of climbers with flowers of different colors clinging to three metal arches. The third characteristic is given by the presence of the Cascina Creta Nuova, inaugurated in 1937, the last one built in Milan, designed as a modern agricultural company that was supposed to supply some markets in the city with meat and milk. The fourth peculiarity of the park is given by the Sella Nuova farmhouse, a fifteenth-century summer residence. Worth mentioning, among the tree species, are locust trees, beech and hazel, as well as various shrubs and climbers.

The park is periodically monitored by the GEV, the Volunteer Ecological Guards.

History and Architecture

History and Architecture

Dedicated to the police officer killed in 1969 in Milan, it is located in the Via Forze Armate area and is part of an essentially residential context. Built in a place that was abandoned for a long time, it develops with a sinuous altitude. The main route, which allows you to cross the entire area, constituting an alternative to the busy Via Forze Armate, is characterized by three metal arches which support climbing plants selected based on their colors and scents.

Architectural heritage and artefacts

In the northern part there is the Cascina Creta Nuova, inaugurated in 1937 as an avant-garde farm in breeding and cultivation systems; towards via Sella Nuova you come across the fifteenth-century farmhouse of the same name, which belonged to the Torriani and Visconti families and used as a summer residence by the Archinto family.

Flora, water and surroundings

Main tree species

silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
cherry (Prunus avium)
beech (Fagus sylvatica)
liquidambar (Liquidambar styraciflua)
common hazel (Corylus avellana)
white elm (Ulmus laevis)
red oak (Quercus rubra).
black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

Main shrub species

dogwood (Cornus sanguinea and C. alba 'Elegantissima')
flowering quince (Chaenomeles japonica)
euonymus (Euonymus alatus).
photinia (Photinia x forzari 'Red Robin')
mahonia (Mahonia japonica)
rose (Rosa rugosa), spirea (Spiraea x vanhouttei)
rtensias (Hydrangea paniculata, H. macrophylla, H. quercifolia)
viburnum (Viburnm tinus)

There are also numerous climbing plants with cream-coloured flowers, fragrant in spring and with beautiful persistent ornamental foliage which turns red in autumn.

Water and surroundings

There is a small periodic stream in the western part of the park.