Park in memory of the Italian Victims in the Gulags

Town Hall 7
Arrival: via Valsesia
Timetables: always accessible
How to get: bus 58/63

Area: 76.700 sqm
Year of realization: 90's
Designers: Milan Municipality Technical Office

What to do at the park

  • 3 play areas; 
  • stroll; 
  • stop and relax; 
  • run along the avenues; 
  • basketball, volleyball and five-a-side football pitch; 
  • skating track; 
  • 2 fitness routes: one of 400 meters and one of 800 metres; 
  • dog area.

The park in brief

It is a park suitable for fun and recreational activities and organized so that everyone can enjoy the spaces undisturbed. There are trees such as cedars, maples, tulip trees, walnuts and oaks.

The flooring is self-locking and the park is periodically monitored by the GEV.

The Valsesia district, built in the 70s, is characterized by a single large block with a perimeter of approximately 2 km, a road with a curvilinear layout along which the housing complexes are arranged.

In the center it contains a large pedestrian space in which the park of the same name was created, where every entertainment structure is well placed, so as to allow undisturbed use for those who use it for a break or for a walk.

Main tree species

  • Constantinople acacia (Albizia julibrissin)
  • maples (Acer campestre, A. negundo, A. platanoides, A. pseudoplatanus, A. saccharinum)
  • tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
  • Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum)
  • hackberry (Celtis australis)
  • hanging birch (Betula pendula)
  • hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
  • Himalayan cedar (Cedrus deodara)
  • flowering cherry (Prunus cerasifera)
  • beech (Fagus sylvatica)
  • English oak (Quercus robur and Quercus r. 'Pyramidalis')
  • major ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
  • ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
  • common hazel (Corylus avellana)
  • American black walnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia)
  • field elm (Ulmus carpinifolia)
  • paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa)
  • poplars (Populus alba, P. nigra, P. x canadensis)
  • red oak (Quercus rubra)
  • downy oak (Quercus pubescens)
  • Judas thorn (Gleditsia triacanthos)
  • American styrax (Liquidambar styraciflua)
  • hybrid lime tree (Tilia hybrida)

Worthy of note are two rows of Himalayan cedars, Caucasian black walnut and rovellas.

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Updated: 18/04/2024