Here is a park that has nothing to envy Versailles or Caserta. Considered the "green" jewel of Monza, the Park was created in 1805 by Napoleonic edict, with the purpose of making it a model agricultural estate and hunting reserve.
The construction began in 1806 and we owe its grandeur, to the whim of a woman! Indeed, it seems that Josephine Bonaparte asked her son, Viceroy Eugene de Beauharnais, to build a park larger than that of Versailles. The wish was granted, and the 700-hectare Monza Park exceeds the French one by an impressive 450 hectares.
Designed by Luigi Canonica, a pupil of Piermarini, the Park is, with a wall of more than 14 km, the largest enclosed park in Europe.
In its interior we recognize three main zones: near the Royal Villa, to the south, we find gardens and open countryside; to the north, on the other hand, there is the "Bello Woods" once used for hunting; then there is the strip along the river, with wetland vegetation. The Mirabello and Gernetto avenue connects the three areas from north to south, up to the Rondò della Stella, right in the middle of the Bosco Bello.
The park is also a safe oasis, for the many animal and plant species that inhabit it. Today, walking along its avenues of ancient origins, it is possible, squinting one's eyes, to observe a small concentrate of what nineteenth-century Brianza used to be: woods, meadows, cultivated fields, the Lambro, farmsteads and villas, and mills set in a seemingly natural but carefully designed environment. An unprecedented and still unique park to be visited on foot, on skates, by bicycle or on horseback.
Ingress
- Villa Reale - viale Brianza 1 - free parking in via Boccaccio
- Porta Monza - viale Brianza 23 -car entrance - parking
- Vedano - viale C. Battisti/via Giacomo Matteotti
- Vedano - via A. Villa/via Santo Stefano - car entrance
- Porta Vedano - via Santo Stefano (Vedano) - car entrance - free parking
- Porta Santa Maria delle Selve - via Santa Maria delle Selve (Biassono) - parking
- Porta Biassono - via Parco/via Umberto I
- Biassono - via Parco/via F. Brunelleschi - free parking
- Biassono - via Parco/via Regina Margherita - parking
- Porta San Giorgio - via Regina Margherita 25 (Biassono, fraz. San Giorgio) - free parking
- Villasanta - via Grazia Deledda - free parking
- Porta Villasanta - via Farina/ viale Cavriga - car entrance - parking
- Monza - via Lecco
- Ingresso Vecchie Grazie - via Giovanni Boccaccio (Monza) - free parking
Shuttle service to the historic center
Monday through Friday from 6:15 a.m. to 9 p.m.30
Departure from Porta Monza every 20 minutes
Customers of the Zucchi Institute can take advantage of the subsidized fare of €1.50 by stamping their parking ticket at the entrance to the Istituti Clinici Zucchi, which is connected to the parking lot by a shuttle bus service
Track the shuttle route
- via app TKSTAR GPS (download App Store - download Google Play)
- from pc on the https://www.mytkstar.net/Monitor.aspx (to access enter IMEI: 9053087908 and password: 123456)
By train
- Monza station and bus line Z221 (to Porta Monza) station also served by TILO, line RE80 Locarno-Milan
- Villasanta station
- Buttafava station
- Biassono-Lesmo-Parco station
