PARKS

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  GIARDINO CAMPAGNA

  The plan for the creation of this Giardino-Campagna (Garden-Countryside) Park is a vast project covering a huge area spreading from the new Bazzanese roadway (from via Masini to the Lavino River) all the way to the Bologna – Vignola railway for a total of over 20 hectares. In the Giardino-Campagna Park, the Local Administration plans to recover traces of agricultural history for didactic purposes as well as spaces and structures for typical urban-park recreational use by the general public. Work on the park was begun in 2006, with the creation of a 300x30 m wooded area along Provincial Road n° 569, with five rows of trees planted at 4 m intervals. The main task of the 900 trees planted here, an array of species, consists in filtering the fine dust coming from the road and providing a source of oxygen for the city.

  
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  LAVINO PARK

  This riverside park was created in 1998 to emphasize the environmental value of this public property and allow public access, while improving the conditions of the riverbanks and the cross-sections of the Lavino to prevent flooding. There is a bicycle path that runs along banks of the Lavino, most of which crosses Zola Predosa territory, from its borders with Monte S. Pietro up to the bridge on Via Mincio.

  
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  RESPIGHI PARK

  “THE” public park of Zola Predosa, Parco Respighi covers about three hectares in the heart of the residential section of the Municipal seat along the Lavino River. Its location along with its “exercise parcourse” make it an important element in an entire system of parks and green areas including the adjacent riverside park and suburban woodlands contained in the park called Parco del Rio Cavanella. With its 260 plants and its playgrounds aimed at all different age ranges, from preschoolers to teens, the park is a great place for people to congregate for fun and recreation, or just to relax and socialize.

  
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  RIO CAVANELLA PARK

  Covering about 12 hectares just uphill from the the residential section of Zola near the Abbey, between Via Raibolini and Via Belvedere, the creation of this park was made possible as part of the renewal project promoted by the Region of Emilia Romagna, which subsidized it in 1988. The project called for the requalification of the landscape and environment of the agricultural and urbanized flatlands in favor planting of rows or swaths of local varieties of trees, and even actual forests. Between 1990 and 1991 about 3000 trees were planted including ash, field maple, white poplar, wild cherry, English oak, etc. This public woodland park provides a “green lung”- a breath of fresh air easily accessible to everyone.

  
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  ALBERI BAMBINI PARK

  There is a brief Italian law, containing only 4 articles, which requires Municipalities to plant a tree for each baby born. When a town respects this proviso, it means it is giving back to nature some of the land that man had taken from it. The Municipal Administration of Zola Predosa planted 1000 trees in the new green area in Ponte Ronca (located on via Matilde di Canossa): one tree for each child born between January 1, 1992 and December 31, 1999. Thus was born the forest of the Children's Trees, entrusted to the children themselves so that they learn to care for their growth with tenderness and love, just as the children themselves require for their own development.

  
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  GESSI PARK

  In collaboration with the Province of Bologna, the Zeula Association, the Parco Gessi Bolognesi (Bolognese Gypsum Park) and the Gruppo Speleologi Bolognesi (Bolognese Cavers' Group), a natural history trail was created in 2006 (due to be inaugurated next autumn). The Public Administration's goal was to provide evidence of how plaster was produced and to emphasize the value of the park's natural environment, and to facilitate public accessibility and utility. The project calls for the creation of nature and history trails along the old municipal road (today just a footpath) which leads from da via Gessi to via Valle crossing through the zone with gypsum outcroppings and Monte Castello. The first part of the project involves a 1378 m. long area in which 5 theme-centered stations have been set up, as well as five picnic areas with informative plaques and signs.