Giardini Pubblici "Indro Montanelli"

The Public Gardens "Indro Montanelli" stretch in the Porta Venezia and are entitled to the journalist who died in 2002. It's the first park in Milan for collective leisure, wanted in 1780 by Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este and designed by Giuseppe Piermarini: it's a French-style garden, with geometric beds and broad prospects of tree-lined avenues, as well as a space for the "game of football." The west part was built by Giuseppe Balzaretto between 1856 and 1862, following the new fashion of the English landscape garden, with hills, streams and ponds. In the second half of the nineteenth century will be home to the "Zoo of Milan", closed in 1992 at the request of environmentalists. The Park houses the Civic Planetarium "Ulrico Hoepli",  the Civic Museum of Natural History, Dugnani Palace, and numerous monuments to Milanese personalities (among which, the statue of Vito Tongiani depicting Indro Montanelli). Among the tree species present, remember the false cypress on the banks of the pond, the cedars of Lebanon and the Himalayas, the monumental dawn redwood, ginkgo biloba, the sweet gum, magnolia, elm and plane trees.

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The Park offers ethnographers botanical route with guided tours for schools; three play areas (with rides); two areas dogs and pavilion "Oasis of butterflies."

In May, it hosts the exhibition-market "Horticultural"; from July to September, the film festival "Arianteo".