Giovanni Testori Park, Urban park in Milan, Italy.
Giovanni Testori Park lies between the old Villapizzone village and the Ghisolfa bridge, on the site of the former Campo dei Fiori garden village. Part of the original internal road layout survives, though the tree species that once lined each street can no longer be matched to the paths. The grounds hold a large themed playground, a basketball and volleyball court, and a fenced 1,500-square-metre dog area.
The garden village of Campo dei Fiori was built in 1919 by the Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari on uncultivated land, housing war veterans and railway pensioners in single-storey houses with small gardens. The villas were demolished in the second half of the 1960s; the area near via Mac Mahon was rebuilt with condominiums, one of which was occupied in January 1971 by Lotta Continua and other groups. The remaining land lay abandoned for about a decade before the park was created between viale degli Ailanti, viale dei Pioppi and via Ercolano.
The park is named after Giovanni Testori, the Milanese playwright who often set his characters' movements and actions in this area between Villapizzone and the Ghisolfa bridge. The name links the green space to the writer's Milanese settings.
The park lies between the old Villapizzone village and the Ghisolfa bridge, entered from viale degli Ailanti, viale dei Pioppi and via Ercolano. Inside, a themed playground, a basketball and volleyball court and a fenced 1,500-square-metre dog area are linked by footpaths that follow part of the former garden-village street grid.
The park's internal road system preserves the original garden village layout, with streets named after tree species that once lined them. This hidden naming tradition reveals how the earlier neighborhood was designed with plants in mind, a detail many visitors overlook.
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