Bosco di Bruzzano, Urban park in Bruzzano district, Milan, Italy.
Bosco di Bruzzano is an urban park on the eastern side of Milan's Bruzzano district, forming the southwestern extension of Parco Nord. Its grounds hold a fenced children's play area, a bocce court, and cycling routes that cross the park and link to the wider Parco Nord network. A fitness trail with exercise equipment connects the woods to the Lago Niguarda area.
The land was already zoned for farming before Affori, the municipality Bruzzano belonged to, was absorbed into Milan in 1923. Those restrictions were enforced during the post-war building boom, and the area became a park in 1968, before the North Milan regional park was completed in 1975. In that year Bosco di Bruzzano was the only section of the new Parco Nord already converted to public green space.
West of the park stands Cassina Anna, an early-20th-century farmhouse of notable architectural quality that once belonged to the Visconti di Modrone family. It now holds the neighbourhood's municipal library, whose ecoteca collection on ecology and the environment is the largest in the Milan library system.
The park has multiple entry points and offers distinct areas for different types of visitors. Cycling routes make it easy to move between this space and nearby green areas.
The park holds a pair of tall Himalayan cedars, planted among Norway spruces, red oaks, plane trees, horse chestnuts, birches, lindens, hornbeams and elms. The Cassina Anna library just west of the wood keeps Milan's main collection of books on ecology and the environment.
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