Emilio Alessandrini Park

Town Hall 4

Arrival: via Monte Cimone, via Varsavia, via Bonfadini, viale Puglie
Opening hours: 6am-30pm, summer time; For more information, see the section below
How to Get There:: tram 16 | bus 84 | trolleybus 90 | 91 | 93

Area: 66.500 sqm
Year of realization: 1969
Redevelopment: 2003
Designers: Technical Office of the Municipality of Milan

What to do at the park

  • running and cycling
  • know the park plants
  • bowling greens: 3
  • play areas: two areas, divided by age: one for children up to 8 years old, with slope slides, built on artificial heights, swings, "sound bubbles", spring-loaded seat games and a wind turbine structure to evoke windmills wind; the other for children up to 15 years old, with cableways and slides on artificial hills, a "rubber hill" for climbing and a large castle
  • gardens 

The park in brief

The park is equipped with fun games for children and hosts an area dedicated to urban vegetable gardens. From crazy Cuoco it is easily reachable.

The flooring is in natural stone and asphalt; There is a video surveillance system and periodic surveillance by the GEV, the Volunteer Ecological Guards.

The park, inaugurated in 1980, was named after judge Emilio Alessandrini, murdered in January 1979 by Prima Linea in via Tertulliano.
It was redeveloped in two phases starting in 2003.

Areas have been created for games, vegetable gardens, dogs and bowls. Lighting is present along the paths and in the rest areas and provides lighting effects to underline the design of the park and some of its most characterizing elements.

The design of the green area was created taking into account the existing trees and integrating them in order to compose groups of trees and flowering shrubs. The fence has a curvilinear shape and insinuates itself between the trees to interpenetrate the interior and exterior.

The redevelopment will be completed when the vast adjacent area which extends up to Via Tertulliano and which will connect, through cycle and pedestrian itineraries, the Formentano Park with Santa Giulia, redeveloped together with Piazzale Cuoco, Insubria, Martini, will be annexed to the park.

Worth mentioning:

  • “The embrace of the People”, sculpture by Cascella, commemorative plaque in memory of judge Alessandrini
  • the eighteenth-century Cascina Colombè di Sopra (municipal and ruined) and Colombè di Sotto, rural settlements located on the road that led to Linate and Paullo and which perhaps owes its name to the presence of a dovecote. They are located on the edge of the park, near the Orthomerato.

Main tree species

  • obinia (Robinia pseudoacacia)
  • silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
  • sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus)
  • red maple (Acer rubrum)
  • ailanthus (Ailanthus altissima)
  • tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
  • Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum)
  • hackberry (Celtis australis)
  • hanging birch (Betula pendula)
  • English oak (Quercus robur)
  • common ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
  • black walnut (Juglans nigra)
  • elm (Ulmus minor)
  • alder (Alnus cordata)
  • red oak (Quercus rubra)
  • lime tree (Tilia platyphyllos)

Worth mentioning are groups of dense and shady Caucasian walnut trees and an area equipped for vegetable gardens.

Specifically, the vegetable gardens are of different sizes, arranged in a sunburst or checkerboard pattern. Each space is fenced, equipped with water outlets, a recycled plastic box for tools and a composting bin.

Arrival

  • January and February: 6am-30pm
  • March and April: 6am-30pm
  • May: 6am-30pm
  • June, July, August and September: 6am-30pm
  • October, November and December: 6am-30pm

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Updated: 21/10/2022