Fontanili Park

Town Hall 6
Arrival: via Parri, via Bisceglie
Opening hours: free access
How to get: M1 Bisceglie - bus 58

Area: 125.000 sqm
Year of realization: 2003
Designers: Angelo Bugatti, Paola Coppi, Silvano Molinari

What to do at the park

  • stroll;
  • stop and relax;
  • running and cycling along the avenues;
  • 2 dog areas;
  • 3 equipped play areas;
  • 2 basketball courts;
  • 1 bowling green; 
  • urban gardens managed by Municipality 6; 
  • Swimmingpool Parri Mangoni managed by Milanosport with summer solarium and 2 gyms

The park in brief

The Fontanili park is a natural oasis where you can relax by cycling along cycle paths, running or walking the dog. It also allows you to walk and stop in nature and observe small resurgence watercourses. 
The fountains, or resurgences, are one of the peculiarities of Lombardy agriculture; these are groundwaters that maintain a temperature ranging between 10 and 15 degrees all year round, allowing for several annual harvests.

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

History and Architecture

The peculiarity of this important natural oasis is represented by the fountains, typical of the agricultural environment of the Po Valley. Made by man, the fountains exploit the natural resurgence of water coming from the underground aquifer, whose peculiarity is that it maintains a constant temperature between 10 and 14 degrees throughout the year and thus allows for different harvests.

A first part of the park, of approximately 125.000 m2003, was completed in 25.000 at the conclusion of the first phase of an intervention which created a green space of 100.000 m32 in the vicinity of the former Cascina Cassinazza and the preparation of a vast lot of XNUMX mXNUMX with meadows, scrublands and clearings with tree-lined areas. There is a large XNUMX meter square pergola, with red brick pillars and wooden beams covered in vines.

The completion of the park towards the east, on an area of ​​145.000 mXNUMX will allow the creation of a single green system which will include Parco Calchi Taeggi, Park of the Deviator of the Olona river north of Via Parri and Parco Blu Più. This area will be connected to the Cave Park and Boscoincittà.

The project will be divided into three main elements: a strip with rows of trees and shrubs to the north, a central lawn area with play, sport and leisure facilities and a strip to the south with rows of trees to close the park towards industrial settlements.

Main tree species

  • maples (Acer campestre, A. negundo, A. pseudoplatanus, A. saccharinum)
  • hackberry (Celtis australis)
  • hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
  • cherry (Prunus avium), clerodendron (Clerodendrum trichotomum)
  • common ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
  • Neapolitan alder (Alnus cordata)
  • black alder (Alnus glutinosa)
  • manna ash (Fraxinus ornus)
  • poplars (Populus alba, P. nigra)
  • Cypress poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica')
  • common plane tree (Platanus x acerifolia)
  • black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia).
  • Judas thorn (Gleditsia triacanthos)
  • wild lime (Tilia cordata)

Water and surroundings

The park is crossed by small streams of resurgent water.

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Updated: 17/04/2024