Francesco Di Cataldo Park

Town Hall 2
Arrival: via Semeria, via Ponte Nuovo
Opening hours: free access
How to Get There:: bus 51 | 86

Area 32.602 m²
Year of realization: 2005
Designer: Technical Office of the Municipality of Milan

What to do at the park 

  • 2 play areas 
  • walk 
  • stop and relax 
  • running and cycling; park also reachable from the cycle path of via Tremelloni
  • 2 dog areas

The park in brief 

The park, dedicated to Marshal Major Francesco di Cataldo, is a garden that allows recreation and rest in the greenery among trees such as cedars and elms, horse chestnuts, pines and oaks. The main paths are self-locking.

Following resolution of the City Council n.867/2013 of 12.01.2013, on 20 April 2013 the park was dedicated with a plaque to the major marshal of the prison guards' corps Francesco Di Cataldo (1926-1978), victim of terrorism in 1978, gold medal for civil merit and gold medal for civic merit.

Among the tree species

  • American maple (Acer negundo L.)
  • field maple (Acer campestre L.)
  • sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.)
  • Norway maple (Acer platanoides L.)
  • saccharinum maple (Acer saccharinum L.)
  • ailanthus (Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle)
  • hackberry (Celtis australis L.)
  • hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.)
  • Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) G. Manetti ex Carrière)
  • turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.)
  • flowering cherry (Prunus spp.)
  • ornamental cherry (Prunus serrulata 'Kanzan')
  • English oak (Quercus robur L.)
  • major ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.)
  • horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum L.)
  • elm (Ulmus spp. L.)
  • Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila L.)
  • Neapolitan alder (Alnus cordata (Loisel.) Desf.)
  • manna ash (Fraxinus ornus L.)
  • pado (Prunus padus L.)
  • flowering pear (Pyrus spp.)
  • black pine (Pinus nigra JF Arnold)
  • Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)
  • white pine (Pinus strobus L.)
  • white poplar (Populus alba L.)
  • black poplar (Populus nigra L.)
  • red oak (Quercus rubra L.)
  • oak (Quercus petraea (Mattuschka) Liebl.)
  • American styrax (Liquidambar styracifluaL.)
  • European linden (Tilia x europaea L.)
  • local lime tree (Tilia platyphyllos Scop.)
  • wild lime (Tilia cordataMill.)
  • tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera L.)

Among the shrubby species

  • laurel (Laurus nobilis L.)
  • forsythia (Forsythia spp. Vahl)
  • photinia (Photinia x forzari Dress)
  • juniper (Juniperus spp. L.)
  • decorative apple tree (Malus spp. Tourn. ex L.)
  • hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.)
  • viburnum (Viburnum spp. L.)

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Updated: 02/05/2023