Parco Villa Turrisi

The Association Villa Park Turrisi was founded in January 2013 by the union and cooperation of committees and environmental groups working in the area, to protect and promote one of the last stretches of the now sacked Conca d'Oro.

♢ Where? The green area of ​​interest is between the Ways L. da Vinci, Casalini, Bonafede, Square Russia, Mammana, Beato Angelico and the one between Via L. da Vinci, Ruggeri, De Wholesale, G. E. Blasi and Politi. Try Maps of the area and you will be surprised to see his great extension.

♢ What? The objectives of our association are:

1. The conservation order of this large green area (protection from overbuilding, housing dall'abusivismo, etc.).
2. the creation of a large public park within these areas
3. the immediate creation of a core group of the park through the use of the areas already under public ownership: Greenway-linear park along the former railway line Palermo-Camporeale, embankments and surfaces deiCanali Borsellino and Passo di Rigano (within a larger project of ecological corridors for the western parks), masting of existing confiscated land within the perimeter described.

♢ Why? The maintenance or the establishment of new urban parks favors:

1. Climate Benefits: such as air exchange flows and currents.
2. hydrogeological Benefits: for there being waterproofed areas, parks meteoric allow water to penetrate the soil reaching the ground water and then the sea without collecting contaminants and avoiding flooding the urban plan.
3. Thermo-urban setting: the parks are the natural remedy for decreasing temperature in compensation to the heat produced by cement building
4. Air quality: the tree vegetation constitutes continuous supply of oxygen which allows, moreover, to mitigate the release of dust in the atmosphere, fumes and carbon dioxide.
5. Biodiversity: the large green areas remain the last refuge for many animal species that have seen destroyed their natural habitat.
6. Socialization: urban parks have always been vital places for recreation and sports, promoting the assembly and social integration.

♢ How?

1. identification (eg. Mapping) of the areas to be protected for their environmental value and historical.
2. orientation of planning instruments (such as PRG) in the direction of the concrete protection of ecological potential (eg. Ranging from agricultural green green historical or public, etc.).
3. dialogue and cooperation on the part of institutions with cultural and environmental associations that are already rooted in the territory and that best express the needs and desires of citizens and that spessono themselves as co-managers of these areas thus relieving the burdens of many institutions ( administrative and financial).
4. enhancement of public areas already but still unused or abandoned, which in the availability of domains or confiscated from the Mafia.
5. re-naturalization of the waterways covered and cemented.

The association also conducts information and awareness activities on related topics (such as conferences and information booths). It 'important, extremely, the support of all citizens. And 'that the union is strength and together we can achieve our major projects. The logo of the park is in a stylized way the semicircle of surviving cypress trees at the perimeter of the citrus and the line of the Greenway.

✉ Mail parcovillaturrisi@gmail.com ✎Twitter @parcoturrisi