Parco Botanico Friulano "Cormor", Botanical garden and urban park in Udine, Italy.
Parco Botanico Friulano Cormor is a botanical garden and urban park in Udine featuring woodland areas, open lawns, and a network of walking paths. Located between a mountain torrent and a highway, the grounds include spaces for recreation and plant observation.
The park was created between 1990 and 1993 by architect Roberto Pirzio Biroli on a neglected site northwest of Udine's centre, and the project won him the International Piranesi Award. It occupies 30 hectares between the Cormôr torrent and the A23 Alpe-Adria motorway.
The park's meadows are stable magredo grasslands, cut at the start of July and again in September after rainy summers, with no fertilisation so the balance between species stays unchanged. A single meadow can hold up to a hundred different species, among them wild orchids such as Orchis morio, Orchis ustulata and Ophrys apifera.
The park lies northwest of Udine's centre, about 3 km from it, between the Cormôr torrent and the A23 Alpe-Adria motorway. Paths and small roads run through the 30 hectares, with a belvedere and a children's play area. The stable magredo meadows are mown in early July and again in September after rainy summers.
The park's stable meadows, called magredi, can hold up to a hundred plant species in a single field. Mowing happens at the start of July and again in September after wet summers, and no fertiliser is ever applied, so the balance between species stays as it is. Look for wild orchids such as Orchis morio and Ophrys apifera.
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