Parco di Villa Finzi, Urban park in Gorla district, Milan, Italy.
Parco di Villa Finzi is an urban park in the Gorla district of Milan featuring a spacious area filled with towering trees such as black poplars, wild lime trees, cherry trees, and a notable horse chestnut. The grounds include play areas for children and rest spaces designed for older visitors.
The garden dates back to the early 1800s when Hungarian Count Batthyany built it, incorporating an underground spring system called Acqualunga that supplied water to a lake. This historical water infrastructure remains an important feature of the park today.
The park carries the name of Fanny Finzi Ottolenghi, who made this space available to the public while prioritizing social purposes like childcare and community welfare. It continues to serve as a gathering place for people of all ages across the neighborhood.
Enter from via Sant'Erlembaldo, a side street off viale Monza; a boundary wall and road separate the park from the Naviglio della Martesana. The former Acqualunga spring now runs buried beneath the lawns, and the underground temple in its artificial grotto is hard to reach. On-site services include a nursery, a kindergarten, a primary school, two playgrounds and the ASL veterinary service.
The hypogean Temple of the Night stands inside an artificial grotto that speleologists from SCAM found was built over an earlier ice house. The grotto is now hard to enter, and the buried Acqualunga spring still runs beneath the park, inspected for possible solvent spills.
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