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Formerly an independent municipality, Limito currently is a district in the south of Piotello, a municipality with around 32,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy.
Along the southern border of the buildings in the Limito district there is a piece of land wedged between a four-lane highway and a row of houses along the Via Fabrizio de André.
For many years this area was abandoned and neglected land, used to dump waste, until in 2016 Emilio Fossati, a resident of the Limito district, decided to start renovating it.
Fossati was an unmarried man, at that time in his early sixties and retired, and what he was about to do was at his own expense and completely selfless.
The project would take seven years of hard work, but it resulted in a freely accessible, beautiful walking area, full of shrubs, trees and benches and also equipped with colorful decorations.
Let's take a look.
The very first image shows a sign showing the location and name of the site: Limito Localita and Il Tombonen, also known as El Tümbüm.
A tombone is a large concrete pipe that is used to allow water from a stream or creek to flow through a dam which one wants to use to cross that stream or creek.
The site as a whole was also tackled by constructing paths, adding seating facilities, planting flowers and shrubs and the organizing and regular maintenance of trees and shrubs.
In this way, in seven years and thousands of hours of work, a neglected area was transformed into a small oasis and a small-scale art environment.
In December 2019 Fossati was honored by a Certificate of Merit from the municipality.
To conclude this post, here is the translation into English of the text on a billboard along one of the site's paths
The View of Desires
Good luck
* Video (9'27", YouTube, August 2023) by Thomas Fox
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