GIARDINI PUBBLICI INDRO MONTANELLI

Description

Essentials about the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli in brief

The Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli (Indro Montanelli Public Gardens) are a green oasis in the heart of Milan. With an area of 160,000 square meters, the Indro Montanelli Gardens are Milan’s second largest city park after Parco Sempione. A visit to the gardens is recommended not only to stretch your legs a little in the greenery, but also to visit the Natural History Museum, the Planetarium or Palazzo Dugnani on the park grounds.

The history of the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli

The Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli historically date back to Duke Ferdinand of Breisgau, who was Viceroy of Milan at the end of the 18th century. He hired the architect Giuseppe Piermarini to transform the area, which at the time was used as cultivated land, into a city park. The gardens were laid out between 1782 and 1786 in the style of a French landscape garden, with geometric flower beds and wide tree-lined paths. In the period from 1856 to 1862, the Giardini Pubblici were extended on the west side by the architect Giuseppe Balzaretto with an English landscape park with artificial hills and lakes.

The buildings in the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli

However, the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli are worth visiting not only for their very beautiful landscape architecture, but also for some interesting buildings on their grounds. At the end of the 19th century, the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (Natural History Museum of Milan) was built in the southeast corner of the park. Since 1930, in the northeast corner, there is the Planetarium. And on the west side of the park is the beautiful 17th century Palazzo Dugnani.