The Ticino Park is one of the largest fluvial parks in Europe; it covers 46 boroughs situated in the provinces of Varese, Pavia and Milan.

The Ticino, known as the “blue river” flows through the Lombard plain from Lake Maggiore to the river Po and, thanks to its geographical location, it offers an incredible variety of landscapes as well as of animal and plant species.

Since ancient times the area surrounding the Ticino has been a thoroughfare and a meeting point for many different civilizations and this is the reason it is possible to find several historical features within the Park: castles, monasteries, convents and churches are spread around the Park region as well as in the areas where archaeological findings were made of the different cultural eras which have existed here over the centuries.