Guido Vergani Park, Urban garden in Pagano district, Milan, Italy.
Guido Vergani Park is an urban park in the Pagano district with multiple sections divided by city streets. It stretches along Via Giorgio Pallavicino and is crossed by Via Rossetti and Via Vincenzo Monti.
The area was occupied by the western railway belt and the Sempione yard, abandoned by the State Railways in 1934. The 1938 master plan envisaged housing here, but the road grid with Via Rossetti and Via Monti was built instead. Work on the park began in 1960, and a green-area renewal followed in 2001.
The park carries four separate dedications. Its central strip between Via Panzini and Via Rossetti is named Largo Carabinieri d'Italia, though no street plaque marks it. The southern section honours Milanese journalist and writer Guido Vergani, while the northern parts beyond Via Vincenzo Monti are named for professor Giuseppe Lazzati and publisher Valentino Bompiani.
The park has six play areas, separated by equipment type and age, with the youngest children's zones fenced. Three large dog areas are equipped with benches, drinking fountains, bags, scoops and bins. Night irrigation uses non-potable first-aquifer water.
The park's most visited feature is the "fontana senza vasca", a basin-less fountain where jets of water spray unpredictably among rocks set in a safe surface. It was installed with the 2001 redevelopment, which also added an automatic night irrigation system using non-drinking first-aquifer water.
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