Fiume Ticino
Parco del Ticino - "The road of Gaggio" was for a long time one of the most important lines of communication between the residential areas of Pianalto and valleys of Ticino, as connected with the river Lonate Pozzolo with the mill Gaggio, where in the past used to grind the grain, with the first industrial plants settled in the late nineteenth century.
Along the way history has left numerous testimonies. We remember the great battle Tornavento of the June 22, 1636 between the English and French and Savoy, which lasted 15 hours on the ground, leaving thousands dead, and that there was a winner.
Fiume Ticino
The following century saw the building that Austro-Hungarian Customs (1737), while the 800 Heath Lonate became a military zone and it was long Still today, walking along the path, observe shield, trenches, old concrete practice bombs for aircraft and runways that the Germans built during the second World War, stood in the area where the military airports of Malpensa and Lonate .
Fiume Ticino
Despite the arid and infertile land, the area of \u200b\u200bGaggio at that time was also an agricultural area. Deforesting and bringing irrigation, farmers turned into arable soils acids typical of moorland, populated by Broom and moors, among the few species able to adapt, accompanied by pines, oaks and chestnuts. The vegetation has been strongly influenced the history, agriculture and various destinations in the wars have upset the original environment to make room for runways, warehouses, roads and new exotic species such as Robinia, the Blackthorn late, so the Ailanthus.
The old customs, long abandoned by the Austro-Hungarian, became a country house and was adibita a fattoria, finché negli ultimi decenni del '900 tutta la zona fu lasciata in abbandono ed anche la strada venne sepolta dalla vegetazione.
Ponticello di attraversamento
Solo nel 1993, dopo un ricco dibattito culturale e politico, iniziò il ripristino della zona ad opera di un gruppo di lonatesi, che riaprirono la via Gaggio. Il Parco del Ticino acquistò la ex Dogana, ristrutturandola ed aprendola al pubblico nel dicembre del 2001 come Centro Parco con uffici, sala conferenze, sala mostre e centro visitatori.
Today, walking along the trail near the tranquil fields and meadows, you may occasionally come across some wild rabbit or a kestrel flying over the open spaces in search of lizards, worms and beetles. But the new airport-related infrastructure Malpensa involve numerous negative effects on the ecosystems of this area: fragmentation, direct consumption of soil, air and noise pollution are threatening the lives of flora and fauna. Consorzio Parco Lombardo della Valle del Ticino has promoted the works of preservation, which led to the implementation of various mitigation actions.
Fiume Ticino
Among these, a short distance away from the park and towards Lonate Pozzolo, you can see the bridge overpass to realize that the SS 336 and the SP 52. This work is an ecological corridor between the Heath Lonate Pozzolo and the valley of Ticino , allowing the transfer of animals from one side of the new road and the use of the path of Gaggio by the population, as pedestrian and cycle path. Deviating slightly from the path you can follow the "sensory trail", by which hypo-deaf but passable by all.
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