Park of Villa Scheibler

Town Hall 8

Entrance: via Lessona, via Anderloni
Timetables: 6:30 - 00:00
How to get: bus 40 | 57

Area 148.000 m²
Year of creation: 1979 and 2005
Designers: Technical Office of the Municipality of Milan and Flora Vallone

What to do at the park:

  • 2 play areas
  • walk
  • stop and relax
  • concrete tables 
  • running and cycling
  • 2 football goals
  • botanical routes
  • get married: it hosts weddings and civil unions on the last Saturday of every month
  • 4 dog areas

Associations present:

The park in brief

The park of Villa Scheibler offers views of lawns, groves with even monumental trees, fountains and water features. The little ones have spaces dedicated to playing while adults can run or cycle along the avenues, or admire splendid specimens of weeping willow, sequoias, cherry trees and paulownias. Municipal nursery in 1928, it preserves trees such as the incense cedar, the white mulberry and the sycamore maple.

The history of the park begins in 1400, when Ludovico il Moro made this place, thick with woods and crossed by streams, his hunting estate. Over the centuries it underwent several changes of ownership and use.

In the sixteenth century the patronal building took on a similar appearance to the current one while agricultural buildings were built on the estate and the land, fertile and irrigated by the Pudiga stream, was used for the cultivation of vines and wheat.

In the nineteenth century the villa, also embellished by the opening on the façade of a columned portico, was purchased by the Scheibler counts, who made it a country residence surrounded by a majestic park, a romantic English garden, with small hills and views unexpected.

In 1927 Count Scheibler sold the villa with his possessions and the building was adapted to the breeding of silkworms before being purchased by the Municipality of Milan in 1926. During the war it offered shelter to displaced persons and part of the park became a municipal nursery. After the war, when the construction of houses began around it, only a small part of the original park was saved.

In 1979 Villa Scheibler became a public park and, in the 2000s, with the contribution of European funds, two types of interventions were progressively carried out: a partial conservative restoration of the Villa, then destined for associations and public services and an intervention on the greenery. In the center of the park, what remains of a small colonnaded temple has been restored, which once served as a connection between Villa Scheibler and the now disappeared Villa Caimi which seem to have been connected by a secret underground passage.

In the garden, the ancient route of the Pudiga stream has been redesigned with trees and a fountain with 4 basins has been created to recall the original richness of water in the area. Added to this is a botanical garden and a square with flowers and shrubs of different colors.

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

Here in the 15th century there was a hunting lodge of Lodovico il Moro, then modified over the centuries to become an imposing noble country residence with an 18th century layout, Villa Scheibler.

The English park attached to the villa had the typical conformation of the landscape model. Small hills enclosed architectural artefacts such as the arch overlooking Milan, the small temple and the small portal that introduced the garden near Villa Caimi. In 1927 Count Scheibler sold his possessions, the agricultural land between the two villas became a municipal nursery until the end of the 70s when it was converted into a public park.

The layout of the paths and trees arranged in dense rows of both native and exotic species remained unchanged. A redevelopment project was recently started with the European "Urban" financing.

The project underlines and proposes some important historical characteristics: the route of the Pudiga stream, evoked by a sinuous path that retraces its ancient riverbed; the garden of Villa Caimi, with hedges and trees around the nineteenth-century monumental portal; the perspective view towards Villa Scheibler, with the new four-basin fountain; the paths and trees of the former nursery which lead to a botanical itinerary of great variety.

The intervention is completed by the Piazza dei Fiori, with shrubs and flower beds that ensure blooms in every season.

Main tree species

  • sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus)
  • Japanese flowering cherry (Prunus serrulata 'Kanzan')
  • cherry (Prunus avium).
  • pendulous beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula')
  • white mulberry (Morus alba)
  • horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
  • elm (Ulmus spp)
  • black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
  • sophora (Sophora japonica)
  • Judas thorn (Gleditsia triacanthos)
  • Botanical routes: there are plates with indications of the different species and botanical varieties
  • There are imposing and unique trees in terms of age such as: the weeping beech, the flowering cherry, the fruit cherry, the white mulberry, the elm, the gleditsia and the sequoia; furthermore: an imposing pendulous beech tree, the paulownia (entrance from via Orsini); next to the fountain there are rarities such as: the sterculia, the Japanese cercidiphyllo, the Kentucky coffee tree, the false lotus.

Water

Four basin fountain.

Gallery

Updated: 11/05/2023

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