Parco Gino Cassinis, Urban park with roses in Rogoredo, Milan, Italy.
Parco Gino Cassinis is an urban park in the Rogoredo district featuring paved pathways, walking areas, and a variety of trees including maples, elms, and weeping willows. The park is organized with clear circulation routes and open spaces for recreation.
The land belonged to Chiaravalle Abbey, whose monks reclaimed it from the 11th century and grew rice there after the mid-16th century; the area was also called Porto di Mare. In 1907 Milan approved a plan for a new port on this site, and work began in 1919, leaving a basin later filled in the 1950s. A bathing establishment with a dance hall, the parco delle Rose, opened at Rogoredo while the works stalled. The park is named after Gino Cassinis, mayor of Milan from 21 January 1961 until his death on 13 January 1964.
Locals call it Parco delle Rose, after the bathing establishment with a dance hall that opened at Rogoredo while the port works stalled. The park is named for Gino Cassinis, rector of the Politecnico, president of the Accademia dei Lincei and mayor of Milan from 21 January 1961 until his death on 13 January 1964.
The park is not fenced and has no designated picnic, dog or cycling areas and no playgrounds or sports facilities. A single asphalt road runs through its middle, and the northern edge borders the motorway link to San Donato Milanese. The terrain is an undulating meadow shaped by landfill, so the ground is uneven underfoot.
The site was once planned to be a port connecting Milan to the Adriatic Sea. That ambitious old plan is still remembered in the name of the nearby metro station Porto di Mare.
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