The Autodromo Nazionale Monza will plant 3 thousand new trees in the Monza Park
Fifty new trees have already been installed but within a few months there will be almost 3 thousand plants that the Monza National Circuit will plant at its own expense in the Monza Park. The racetrack has begun in recent days the planting of the first fifty specimens of ready-to-use hornbeams (i.e. large adult plants) five meters high, to reconstruct a row along an avenue between the second curve of Lesmo and the Seraglio . The lot to which the hornbeams belong is made up of 554 plants in total and will be fully laid by the beginning of the spring season.
This is the planting intervention, to compensate for the cutting of a few hundred trees placed in the green areas inside the portion of the Monza Park belonging to the Temple of Speed, in a ratio of a tree planted to one that has been cut or crashed. The removal of the plants, which took place in recent years, has made it possible to improve the safety of the areas of the Autodrome in which risk situations have been identified. The interventions involved both trees in worrying vegetative conditions within areas affected by the transit and parking of people and vehicles and trees crashed by the wind during the violent accidents that characterized the last summer seasons.
The cutting works concerning risk situations have been previously authorized by the competent bodies: Valle del Lambro Regional Park, Villa Reale Consortium and Monza Park, Superintendence of fine arts and landscape of Milan and for the provinces of Como, Lecco, Monza and Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio and Varese.
As part of the maintenance and enhancement of the park’s green spaces by the Monza National Circuit, in addition to the trees in the first lot, another 2,400 plants will be planted again by spring. The operation fulfills the fulfillment envisaged by the past agreement for the concession of the Monza racetrack area for the years from 2016 to 2019, which includes the laying of 600 forest plants per year.
The forest seedlings will be of certified origin belonging to the flora of the Park and with seeds coming from the Lombard regional genetic heritage, suitable for planting in wooded portions of park or to be reforested because they can develop appropriately to the context and specific stationary conditions. The 554 plants to replace the cuts will be mostly adult specimens between 3 and 6 meters in height. In fact, the use of specimens with a prompt effect has been chosen, where the plants will be planted along avenues, to reconstitute the pre-existing rows, or isolated; in wooded areas, the choice of forest seedlings combined with the necessary multi-year crop care will be preferred.
