Memorie Industriali park, Urban park in southern Milan, Italy.
Memorie Industriali is the park of the former OM Officine Meccaniche heavy machinery works, bounded by Via Pompeo Leoni, Via Pietrasanta, Via Ripamonti, Via Corrado il Salico, Via Carlo Bazzi and Viale Toscana. Completed in 2008, it is split into three parts: the Parco della cultura, the Parco ex OM and the Parco della Vettabbia. It was built without trees; the only vertical elements are an old overhead crane and a children's playground.
The site originally housed OM Officine Meccaniche manufacturing operations until production ceased in 1994. Following this closure, urban planners initiated a recovery project to transform the abandoned industrial land into public green space.
The park's name recalls the heavy machinery works of OM Officine Meccaniche, which operated on this land from 1890 until it became Fiat Iveco and was dismantled. The only vertical elements in the otherwise treeless lawn are an old overhead crane and the children's play area, reminders of the industrial past.
The park is split into three separate parts by buildings and roads: the Parco della cultura, the Parco ex OM and the Parco della Vettabbia. The Parco della cultura was still unfinished in 2011, and the planned 1,500-seat amphitheatre and orchard border were postponed. The Vettabbia canal bank, with its restored single-storey buildings, lies just outside the Parco della Vettabbia boundary.
On the right bank of the Vettabbia, outside the park's official boundary, restored one-storey buildings stand among wild vegetation where moorhens and mallards have nested and become resident. The canal water is almost always clear, and the poplars on its banks have been colonised by tree of heaven.
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