Ticinello Agrarian Park

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History of the park:
Since the mid 800, the city of Milan has grown predominantly northwards than the fertile southern countryside. Here the cultivation was already begun in the late twentieth century by the Cistercians of the Abbey of Chiaravalle, with the reclamation of the marshes that occupied much of the plain. A dense irrigated net was created, which some centuries later had been completed with the construction of Navigli. Right from the Navigli line comes the Ticinello river that gives its name to the Park.
The consequent availability of abundant fodder favored the development of cattle breeding, leading to the construction of the Lombard farmhouse, which, in its typical closed-court structure, collected all the functions of productive, social and religious life. From the 700, with the assertion of modern agrarian science, developed the cultivated crops that provided forage for almost the whole of the year. Cascina Campazzo and the surrounding agricultural area are a significant example of this agriculture, also due to the presence of some fields of marsh.

In an attempt to preserve an area with these original features within a commune territory, a group of inhabitants of surrounding neighborhoods and farmers themselves gathered in an association, proposing and anticipating, already in reality, the creation of a park, which the Administration had planned at the end of the 1980s and which has definitively resolved in October 2000.
Under this project, which provides for funding for the expropriation of land and for the necessary infrastructural facilities, today, just over three kilometers from the Duomo di Milano, there is the Parco Agricolo Ticinello, an interesting example of integration between the environment, Agriculture and leisure and teaching facilities. The park, in terms of greenery, with an extension of 800,000 square meters, is currently ranked third in terms of surface area compared to other Milanese parks (6).