Piazzale Santorre di Santarosa

Piazzale Santorre di Santarosa (Santorre of Santarosa Square) is a symmetric square in circular shape into four segments dominated in the center by the War Memorial of Musocco, slightly raised with a partition platform dividing it by the tram tracks.
The square belongs to Quartiere Varesina, Zone 8 of Milan, and divides Viale Carlo Espinasse to about 2/3 of its length.

The square has two traffic lights, one on the corner of Viale Espinasse northbound and one corner Via Giovanni Battista De Rossi, and is crossed by the tram tracks along Viale Carlo Espinasse with the passage of trams 19, while the line 12 joins in square from Via Giovanni Battista De Rossi towards the periphery cutting the square and in the opposite direction. In three corners outside of the square three tram stops.
The most traffic of vehicles coming from Viale Carlo Espinasse north, many of them from the bridge of Via Palizzi, in the direction of Viale Carlo Espinasse to Piazzale Accursio or Via Bernardino Galliari and then Via Ludovico di Breme.

The War Memorial of Musocco stands in the square about ten meters high with two statues in opposite directions, commemorating the fallen in the First World War of Musocco, autonomous municipality incorporated in Milan in 1923 by royal decree.

In Piazzale Santorre di Santarosa 10 is a historic building with two floors accessible by a small flight of steps, a little shabby, once town hall of the extinct municipality of Musocco and now home of the Green Cross Sempione. Next in a gate painted like graffiti, in a small space, park ambulances and vehicles of the Green Cross.
Behind the number 10 can be seen the elementary school mixed Alfredo Cappellini, in Via Giovanni Battista De Rossi 2, and a space and a small building of the Drinking Water of the City of Milan.

In another segment of the square, in Piazzale Santorre di Santarosa 4, two modern buildings with communal gardens whose forsythia announce in March the spring, and on corner a renovated house, Viale Espinasse 110.
A gas station, now Rete Italia (Network Italy), has for many years in the slice square towards Via Galliari with behind an old shed with windows on the ground floor. The last segment square sees a large building apparently offices, in construction never finished, looming over the square.
The square is refined by a series of plants cherry (prunus) with beautiful blooming in spring of pink flowers and a fountain of the City, called small widow.

The square has a historical value for the entire area of the north-west of Milan for the presence of War Memorial of Musocco and the old building at 10 already the town hall, however, seems old, decadent, the whole arrangement should be reconsidered, valuing and making known the monument to fallen.

Santorre Annibale De Rossi di Pomerolo, Count of Santa Rosa, (Savigliano 1783 - Sphacteria Greece 1825) was an Italian patriot and revolutionary.


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