Giardini Perego
Giardini Perego occupies a small green space in central Milan, along Via dei Giardini. Trees, flower beds and winding paths create a quiet setting amid the surrounding city streets.
The Perego family acquired the land in 1778, before Luigi Canonica designed formal rectangular parterres around a central fish pond. Luigi Villoresi later reshaped the gardens into an English-style landscape. Urban development altered the layout during the early twentieth century and created Via dei Giardini. A 2005 restoration added numerous flower beds to the historic setting.
Field maples, Judas trees, hornbeams, oaks, horse chestnuts, yews and magnolias fill the planting. A late-eighteenth-century statue of Vertunno, made by Grazioso Rusca, depicts the mythical god of gardens and fruits. Families also find a playground and a 200-metre running track among the greenery.
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