Parco di Villa Carcano

The vast park (over 40 ha) was built around the Villa, about in 1810, drawing on already traced by Pollack, with a typical setting landscaping, including structures and elements that accentuate the romantic impression. Next to the farm buildings were built so many pieces of furniture and nice use: newsstands, an outdoor theater, a "little house of" and an ice coffee, while, in a succession of large esplanades and fresh valleys, was made a big pond surrounded by streets and groups of majestic trees.

Among the most interesting tree species should be mentioned antiquated Celtis australis, Ginkgo biloba, Aesculus hippocastanum avenues and then Chamaecyparis, Diospori Virginiana, yews, cedars. Entering the park meet the broad masses of Trachicarpus Fortuney palm and laurel, a spectacular Fagus Purpurea, high Abies nordmanniana, magnolias and centuries-old chestnut trees. The collection of hydrangeas, recently reinforced, the old and new magnolias, camellias that welcome to Villa show their full bloom and the great works of the undergrowth opening and reorganization made usable again for a large area of ​​the park that, in recent decades, was It was invaded by wild vegetation.

Following avenues and paths, you can reach the lake with its small island. Climb the ancient always Carpanata in the intact landscape of Brianza two centuries ago '. The ancient trees accompany you marking the boundary between the formal garden and the countryside. A hornbeam avenue leading to the main lake, populated by water lilies and wildlife, with two islands and a headland crossed by a tunnel, once navigable. Until mid-twentieth century the lake was used to produce ice, which was stored in one of several glaciers of the property and sold in the summer.

But the Villa Carcano Park is also a vantage point on the landscape change in the Upper Brianza in the last two centuries. Still visible are the signs in the territory of the activity to spend original agricultural activities to modern, from the farm estate. The vicissitudes of political history have greatly influenced the evolution of economic activity and companies in the area. mechanical workshop of the farm the first motorcycles were built (with the engine Carcano, built with Carlo Maserati) and a car in 1898; in the early '900 was built the small power station, and the train for internal transport.