APPROVED THE MONZA REFORESTATION PLAN
The Management Board of the Consorzio Villa Reale e Parco di Monza, in its meeting on February 21, 2025, approved the Collaboration Agreement with the Automobile Club d’Italia, the Regional Park of the Lambro Valley, and the Lombardy Region for carrying out reforestation, forest reconstruction, and maintenance activities in the northern area of the park, within the perimeter of the Autodrome, where around ten thousand trees collapsed following the storm that hit the Brianza region in July 2023.
The total value of the Agreement amounts to €3,380,000.00, with €2,612,950.82 provided by the Lombardy Region and the remaining amount from ACI through the implementing body.
The project aims to carry out forest reconstruction based on naturalistic criteria, seeking to align the ecosystem with climatic and fertility characteristics and to promote spontaneous forest regeneration processes in the coming years. The work is planned in three phases: design; preparatory works, reforestation, and cultural care interventions lasting 5 years; and a four-year maintenance phase to consolidate and preserve the results obtained with previous works and ensure the final establishment of a new forest. The work will be overseen by a dedicated Technical Scientific Committee composed of representatives from the Lombardy Region, ACI, Consorzio Villa Reale e Parco di Monza, and the Regional Park of the Lambro Valley.
“It’s a medium to long-term project of high complexity, both due to the exceptional landscape, cultural, and naturalistic significance of the affected areas—the damage affected all forest areas within the Autodrome and was particularly severe near Bosco Bello—and due to the financial resources and expertise required. The Collaboration Agreement will allow for the development of the full potential of a joint action, ensuring the historical preservation, repair of the ecosystem, and prevention of potential floral and structural degradation. We are united in our desire to restore and enhance areas that are dear to the people of Monza and represent a heritage of absolute regional and national interest,” says Paolo Pilotto, President of the Consorzio Villa Reale e Parco di Monza.
“We ensured emergency interventions and safety measures between the summer of 2023 and the following winter. The calamity of July 2023 strengthened our willingness to collaborate with the public entities involved in the protection of the forest heritage. In this case, we committed to carrying out actions to fully restore the damaged areas we manage. Our participation in this forest improvement program highlights how the protection and enhancement of green spaces are at the top of our objectives. As a result of this commitment, 8,000 plants were planted over the last year,” says Giuseppe Redaelli, President of Autodromo Nazionale Monza.
“Nature, with the growing violence of weather phenomena, in 2023 accomplished in a day and a half what would normally take humans 20 years or more. With this important funding, we are intervening in a woodland area whose health was already compromised at the time of the calamity and had long been under attention. In just over a year, we are responding and reacting to this devastation, with complex interventions to restore the irreparably damaged woodland sections and actions that lay the foundations for an increasingly virtuous management of the forest heritage of the Parco di Monza. I thank all the parties involved, especially the Lombardy Region and the Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, and Forestry Assessor, Alessandro Beduschi,” says Marco Ciceri, president of the Regional Park of the Lambro Valley.
“This intervention is a fundamental step for the reconstruction of the forest heritage of the Parco di Monza, severely affected by the extreme events of 2023. Thanks to the joint efforts of the institutions involved, we are not only restoring the damaged areas, but we are doing so with a long-term vision, ensuring sustainable forest management that is in harmony with the ecosystem. The Park, which becomes an international showcase for Lombardy during the Grand Prix, will return to being a fully usable green lung, an identity place for citizens, and an example of environmental protection and landscape enhancement,” says Alessandro Beduschi, regional Assessor for Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, and Forests.
(Press release from Reggia di Monza)