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Town Hall 6

Arrival: via Solari, via Montevideo
Opening hours: free access
How to get: MM Sant'Agostino - tram: 14/19 - bus 50

Area: 43.100 sqm
Year of creation: 1935
Designer: Enrico Casiraghi
Year of expansion and swimming pool: 1963
Redevelopment: 2004, Municipality Technical Office of Milan

What to do at the park

• 4 play areas, including sound play; 
• stroll; 
• stop and relax; 
• a multipurpose field; 
• running and cycling along the avenues; 
• picnic or reading: there are wooden tables with seats; 
• 4 dog areas; 
• equipped fitness area; 
• mobile kiosk in spring - summer; 
• Covered pool Solariums, with solarium in summer.

The Giussani park is a garden frequented and appreciated by the neighborhood as a place to rest and relax, thanks to the shaded benches, the dog area and the tables with seats that make it easy to eat, study or read. There is also the Solari swimming pool, designed by the architect Arrighetti in 1963 and harmoniously inserted into the park itself.

The swimming pool has a contemporary, sinuous and functional design. The saddle-shaped tensile structure holds two steel cables innervated on vertical windows: the latter give brightness to the pool and allow the water to be flooded by the light and greenery of the park. 

The park is bordered by a cycle path: following the route via Dezza-Cimarosa you arrive in Pagano, at the Vergani park and from there at the Sempione park; continuing on the Via Olona side you reach Sant'Ambrogio.

The area was in the past a significant hub because it was built where there was the railway yard that connected Porta Genova with the Sempione, which was abandoned and was used as a public green area.

The construction was entrusted to the architect Casiraghi who in 1935 made it a park with avenues, tree-lined green areas and a fountain.
Subsequently expanded and redeveloped, the park contains large trees and gravel paths where you find the Door of Return, by the Japanese sculptor Kan Yasuda and many plants, such as the silver maple, the Atlas cedar, the leaf myrobalan red and splashes of color formed by hydrangeas and roses.

The park has avenues in stabilized concrete and natural stone and is entirely monitored by video cameras.