Trotter park, Urban park in Turro district, Milan, Italy.
Trotter Park is a large green space in Milan's Turro neighborhood with a circular path surrounded by varied vegetation and recreational areas. The grounds contain courts for volleyball, basketball, and five-a-side football, plus a theater, two gymnasiums, and multiple children's play areas.
The Società del Trotter opened a trotting racetrack here in 1906, also used for cycling, motorcycle and car races until it moved to San Siro in 1924. Milan's municipality then built the Casa del Sole school for children at risk of tuberculosis: twelve single-storey chalet-style pavilions, each with four classrooms and a refectory, set in the park.
The name comes from the Società del Trotter, the Milanese branch of the National Trotting Society, not from a person. Since 2013 the school community has held the Premio Art. 3 for its work on understanding and accepting differences between cultures, and pupils of about 24 nationalities attend the Casa del Sole school.
The park closes to the public during school hours, so plan visits for afternoons, weekends or holidays. The main ring path is 800 m long and asphalted, following the old racetrack oval. The former pool basin, ringed by a stone balustrade, now holds basketball and football courts used by students and, when open, by local youths.
The oval of the old racetrack survives as the park's main avenue, now asphalted, and the 800-metre ring can still be traced on foot. The school's former swimming pool, a large basin ringed by a stone balustrade, was converted in 2020 into basketball and football courts used by pupils and, outside school hours, by local children.
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