Guido Vergani Park and Valentino Bompiani Garden
Town Hall 7
Arrival: Via Guido d'Arezzo, via Pallavicino
Opening hours: free access
How to Get There:: MM1 Pagano | tram 27 | bus 67 | 68
Area: 87.800 sqm
Year of realization: 60s, redeveloped in 2001
What to do at the park
- 5 play areas
- trampolines for a fee
- walk
- stop and relax
- run
- ride a bicycle
- 4 dog areas
- mobile kiosk with ice cream and drinks
The park in brief
The two adjacent parks offer numerous opportunities for recreation, starting with five children's play areas. You can cycle on a cycle path surrounded by greenery, bring your dogs, or walk with family and friends. A fountain with water features offers moments of fun and freshness for adults and children. The two parks are divided by the Leone XIII institute, and are dedicated to the journalist Vergani and the publisher Bompiani.
The flooring is in concrete, asphalt and natural stone; the park is periodically monitored by the GEV, the Volunteer Ecological Guards.
In the 1938 plan, called "Green Milan", the area was intended as a residential neighborhood for 45.000 inhabitants.
Since the project was not implemented in the 60s, it was decided to create an elongated and fragmented park. The two sectors, separated by the building that houses the Leone XIII institute (built in 1950), today constitute two distinct public green spaces: the Guido Vergani Park, recently named after the journalist and writer who died in 2005, winds between via Burchiello and via Rossetti; the Valentino Bompiani Garden, named after the Milanese publisher, is located between via Vincenzo Monti and the Northern railways.
The redevelopment works in 2001 involved some changes in altitude as a noise barrier, the resurfacing of the floors in concrete, the introduction of shrubs and flowering trees, the adaptation of the lighting system and the strengthening of the equipment (playgrounds and cycle path).
Main tree species
- silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
- sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus)
- tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum)
- hackberry (Celtis australis)
- white birch (Betula pendula)
- hawthorns (Crataegus laevigata and C. oxyacantha)
- hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
- cherry (Prunus avium)
- Japanese flowering cherry (Prunus serrulata 'Kanzan')
- beech (Fagus sylvatica)
- English oak (Quercus robur)
- koelreuteria (Koelreuteria paniculata)
- holm oak (Quercus ilex).
- magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora)
- apple tree (Malus communis)
- Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila)
- white alder (Alnus incana)
- Cypress poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica')
- black poplar (Populus nigra)
- common plane tree (Platanus x acerifolia)
- swamp oak (Quercus palustris)
- red oak (Quercus rubra)
- Judas thorn (Gleditsia triacanthos)
- American styrax (Liquidambar styraciflua)
- wild lime (Tilia cordata)
Among the trees, there is a group of elms, large specimens of hackberry, red oak, cherry trees and a Judas tree.
Water and surroundings
Fountain with water features
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Updated: 26/10/2022