Parco delle Risaie (associazione, Milano)

The area of ​​the Rice Fields Park is located south-west of Milan, in the range of the low plain, once characterized by agricultural organization of a territory once again quenched that is structured on the articles irrigation system.

Water is the dominant theme, but also the structuring character of the landscape: Excavated lowland valleys, fountains and irrigation network and, once again, the "rotten", wet meadows typical of this part of Lombardy now almost gone.

Along water courses develop rows, riparian vegetation and rural routes, but also are structured farming settlements of a historical nature.

The territory south of Milan has always been under the direct influence of the great city of Lombardy, he has followed the destinies and it draws the necessary economic relationship, based on traditional exchanges between town and countryside. In recent times, however, it has absorbed all the contradictions that fall on the peri-urban areas of metropolitan fringes.

Faced with this process, they appear high strategic value of the conservation initiatives of the agricultural heritage and pursued agrarian culture, within the territory of reference, by the Regional Agricultural Park South Milan.

The Park of Rice fields, inside the Milan South Agricultural Park, is nestled in an area between the Naviglio Grande and Naviglio Pavese, where you can still touch the tradition, the effort and the clarity of the peasants tied to the cultivation rice, who in the southwest of Milan and throughout the Lombardy Region has very strong roots and ancient.