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Consorzio Parco delle Groane
Via della Polveriera, 2
20020 Solaro (MI)
Tel: 02/9698141
Fax: 02/96790196
E-mail: info@parcogroane.it
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The Statute of the Association (PDF, Italian text - 160Kb) The Park Authority (Italian text): |
Parco delle Groane |
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Parco delle Groane is a regional protected area with a surface of 3,400 hectares within the metropolis of Milano. Among houses, palaces, and industries the last oak and Scotch pine woods survive; at the end of the summer huge moorlands are covered with flowers; old furnace ruins characterize the territory with their brick walls; ancient noble villas remind with their gardens the past times. The Regional Park was established in 1976 according to the will of the Towns and of the Lombardia Region, and since 1984 it has a regulation controlling the use of the areas, in harmony with the preservation of nature, agriculture, and tourism. The natural reserves lying within the area represent sites of community interest. All this is situated inside the town, among the traffic and the bustling activities. Parco delle Groane is managed by a Consorzio created among the Towns and the Province of Milano. The Consorzio buys the lands of the Park, reforests the spoil areas, improves the woods, and protects nature. The Consorzio Parco Groane has also created a net of cycling routes along which it is possible to enjoy the nature without going too far from the city. |
The Landscape |
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| Parco delle Groane covers the most continuous and important semi-natural land of the upper plain of Lombardia, in the north-west of Milano. It is a particularly interesting moorland territory from a geological point of view, made by clayey strata with an environmental and floritstic specific nature.
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Flora |
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The oak woods They are the oldest woods in the Park, with their imposing British oaks and sessile oaks alternating with birches, maples, white hornbeams and, in the coolest areas, ash trees. Here the most interesting fauna lives: foxes, squirrels, great spotted woodpeckers, dormice, kestrels, long-eared owls, and many other animals which can be sighted if you are patient and quiet. The Moorlands The Pinewoods |
Fauna |
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| The woods of the Park are populated by several mammals and birds, some of which are very rare. If you are patient, it is possible to observe squirrels, weasels, and foxes; moreover, great spotted woodpeckers, hoopoes, titmice, chaffinches, herons, little bitterns; buzzards and kestrels are common, while the honey buzzards are more difficult to sight. During the night, the Park is populated by long-eared owls, little owls, and tawny owls. Among the amphibians there are several species of frogs and the rare great crested newt.
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Geology |
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| Geological substratum The origin of Groane, like the origin of the whole Po Plain, dates back to the last geological epoch - the Neozoic or Quaternary period. As a matter of fact, during the Tertiary period, the whole Po Plain was covered by water. The Quaternary epoch consisted into two periods: the most ancient period called Pleistocene (also "diluvium") and a more recent one, the Holocene period, also called "alluvium", continuing in the present.
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Historical Villas |
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Their origin dates back to the first decades of the 17th century, a period of great flourishing of the extraurban noble residences which, studied in order to be built in harmony with the surrounding landscape, became the destination for country meetings and hunting, the main entertainment activities of the local aristocracy.
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The Kilns |
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| Groane are a particularly interesting moorland territory from a geological point of view, made by clayey strata with an environmental and floristic specific nature. Their name probably derives from the hard soil, not suitable for cultivation, which formed during the prehistorical epoch when the wind deposited the “loes”, a sort of stratum made of some meters of clay, sand, silt (detritus).
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