In Rome over the next ten years, one hundred new parks will be built on the outskirts, beyond the perimeter of the Aurelian Walls. The first 50 will be completed by 2026, the others will be built in the following five years. Meanwhile, construction sites at the Tre Fontane Park and Villa Flora will begin within the year. By the end of 2024, however, the tender procedures will be completed for the awarding of the works of another 14 already financed projects. They join seven parks already recovered, including two along the Tiber river: that of Marconi and that of Magliana. In total to date, the municipal administration has invested 142 million euros: part of the funds concerns the seven parks already redeveloped, another part, more than 35 million euros, concerns 16 interventions already financed out of the 21 already identified and for which is expected to cost a total of 63 million euros.
The plan was illustrated today in the Campidoglio by the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, by the Councilor for the Environment, Sabrina Alfonsi and by the president of the Rome Environment Commission, Giammarco Palmieri of the Democratic Party. The 21 new parks are distributed throughout the city municipalities and will have the function of connecting the territories through green areas. “The parks have a function of mending between one quadrant and another of a territory, where there are no roads we bring green paths – said Mayor Gualtieri -. Parks, however, also have other important functions: they are meeting and aggregation places for families and children; they are fundamental places in the fight against climate change". In the one hundred new parks, forms of public-private collaboration will be envisaged to encourage the care and maintenance of the spaces. “These one hundred parks – explained councilor Alfonsi – are all different, some are squares and others are large parks whose opening and closing is entrusted to the garden service or to associations through a tender. The public-private collaboration will concern the kiosks that perform a refreshment function: the private sector will have a role to intervene on some maintenance matters. Furthermore, through collaboration agreements, local associations will help us maintain the park, but the public will take care of it, which is why we have allocated 100 million over three years." According to President Palmieri "the work started from the beginning of the council allows us today to develop a broad project to create usable green areas throughout the city".
In detail, the first 21 interventions are distributed as follows: Town Hall III, via Valsolda park and Caio Sicinio Belluto park; Town Hall IV, via degli Alberini park; Municipality V, Mother Teresa Park of Calcutta and Tor Tre Teste Park; Town Hall VI, green area of via Marcello Candia; Municipality VII, Aqueducts Park, Romanina Park, Quadraro Hill; Town Hall VIII, Pazino Garden and Tre Fontane Park; Town Hall IX, Cesare Pavese Park; Municipality X, Ravennati Park; Town Hall XI, Piazza Augusto Lorenzini and Villa Bonelli; Town Hall XII, Villa Flora; Town Hall XIII, Villa Veschi and second part of the Cellulose Park; Town Hall XIV, Lucchina Garden and Ponderano Park. The 21 interventions also include the one on the Aurelian Walls which embraces Municipalities I and VII and whose project aims to improve the system of connections with other green spaces and with the cycle network as well as enhancing the archaeological and monumental heritage. Of the 21 interventions, the 5 for which it is still necessary to proceed with the allocation of funds but for which the planning has begun, in order to establish the necessary amount, are: Mura Aureliane, Tor Tre Teste Park, Collina del Quadraro, Villa Bonelli, Park They ponder.
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