Parco Sempione, Urban park in Turin, Italy
Parco Sempione is a public park of 88,210 m² in Turin, the city's 26th largest, straddling Borgo Vittoria, Barriera di Milano and Rebaudengo. Until the early 2000s it was split in two by the Turin railway passante; the east side, between the passante, corso Grosseto, via Boccherini, via Toscanini and via Cigna, held sports facilities including a municipal pool run by Rari Nantes Torino, closed since 2022.
The park was split into two areas by Turin's surface railway until the early 2000s: the east side in Rebaudengo and Barriera di Milano, the west side in Borgata Vittoria. Between 2005 and 2006 the railway was buried, and the western area was taken over by works for the Torino Rebaudengo Fossata station, part of the Spina 4 project, greatly reducing its green space. The site is now planned as Turin's northern gateway on the Spina Centrale axis.
In the 1970s and 1980s the park hosted Punti Verdi, a summer programme of music and theatre shows organised by the city's culture department in several Turin parks. The eastern part later held sports facilities, including a municipal pool with an indoor and an outdoor basin run by Rari Nantes Torino, closed since 2022.
Admission is free and the park has multiple entry points throughout the area, allowing visitors to enter from different sides. Opening hours run from early morning until sunset, providing ample time for exploration.
The park once hosted the Punti Verdi, a summer programme of music and theatre staged across Turin's parks between the 1970s and 1980s on the initiative of the city's culture department. Since the sports facilities closed in 2022, the grounds have been occupied informally.
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