The best MTB trails around Cormano

Parco Nord Milano extends for about 600 hectares between the districts of the northern periphery of Milan. Its conception dates back to the late 1960s, but it was only in 1975 that it was recognized by the Lombardy Region as a regional park. Its management is entrusted to a Consortium composed of the six Municipalities around the Park and the Province of Milan. The park is located in one of the most densely urbanized contexts in Europe, characterized by the presence of historic factories (now almost entirely disappeared as a result of de-industrialization) and large housing estates that, over time, have joined the northern periphery of Milan to its hinterland without any urban planning design. Parco Nord Milano currently boasts about 350 hectares of green areas, organized into wooded areas, clearings, rows of trees, shrub patches, hedges, and small bodies of water. Today, the park continues to expand and grow with the working methodology used over all these years, aware of its social, urban, and ecological role. The new reforestation lots, with small saplings of a few tens of centimeters protected by stakes, are the symbol of the growing park, of the investment in the future. But it is the management and maintenance of the green areas that best express the working methodology used: new problems have been met with new, technologically advanced solutions, in order to maintain that standard of quality of the green areas, that care and maintenance, which citizens have become accustomed to seeing, and which make Parco Nord Milano a concrete example of sustainable development for the entire city, similar to what happens in other major European cities. A place of quality, therefore, where technology, creativity, passion, and professional seriousness meet to satisfy the expectations of visitors and respond to the deep needs of the city.

The Villoresi canal takes water from the river Ticino, in the locality of Panperduto, in the municipality of Somma Lombardo. After travelling 86 kilometers, through the provinces of Milan and Monza Brianza, it flows into the river Adda in the municipality of Cassano d’Adda. Construction work began in 1881 and was completed in 1891 to a design by Eugenio Villoresi. Originally intended exclusively for irrigation, following the crisis in crops related to silk production, the canal now allows water distribution in a plain area of approximately 85,000 hectares, through a network that totals around 3,000 kilometers. The paths, which are free of difficulties, accessible to everyone and certainly of interest, are part of the investments made to enhance the towpaths of the waterways, and are also considered a fast connection route between the various Municipalities bordering the canal.

The Villoresi Canal towpath connects Arese and the nearby municipalities via cycle paths and service roads, offering a convenient cycle-pedestrian route along the artificial canal that connects the Ticino and Adda rivers.

bridge over the Lura in the homonymous park

The Villoresi canal draws water from the Ticino river, in the locality of Panperduto, in the municipality of Somma Lombardo. After traveling 86 kilometers, in the provinces of Milan and Monza Brianza, it flows into the Adda river in the municipality of Cassano d’Adda. Construction work began in 1881 and was completed in 1891 to a design by Eugenio Villoresi. Originally intended exclusively for irrigation purposes, following the crisis of crops connected with silk production, the canal now allows water distribution in a plain area of approximately 85,000 hectares, through a network that totals about 3,000 kilometers. The paths, free of difficulties, accessible to everyone and certainly of interest, are part of the investments made to enhance the towpaths of the waterways, and should also be considered a fast connection route between the various Municipalities bordering the canal.

The cycle bridge located in Parco Nord Milano that crosses via XX Settembre is one of the park's main cycle-pedestrian walkways, built in 1997 to unite the green areas between the municipalities of Bresso and Milano. It is located in the eastern area of the park, connecting Parco Nord of Bresso with the bordering area of Milano.

Il Parco del Lura is a local park of supramunicipal interest established for the protection and enhancement of the Lura stream valley in the stretch that extends from Cassina Rizzardi to Lainate. The municipalities adhering to the consortium are: Bregnano, Cadorago, Caronno Pertusella, Cassina Rizzardi, Cermenate, Garbagnate Milanese, Guanzate, Lainate, Lomazzo, Rovellasca, Rovello Porro and Saronno

The Villoresi Canal cycle path crosses the Lombardy countryside, running along the entire stretch of the Villoresi Canal, the historic waterway built for irrigating fields at the end of the 19th century by engineer Eugenio Villoresi. The Canal draws water from the Ticino river, near Somma Lombardo, and after a 86 km journey, returns it to the Adda river, near Groppello.