Visit the “Parco di San Giovanni” (San Giovanni Park)

In the 1970s, the park became a place of innovation and change. Here, Franco Basaglia and his co-workers sparked a revolution of international outreach in the field of psychiatry. The hospital and the park were opened to the city: patients were free to leave and city residents were free to enter. Today, the park and city shine as a meeting place of social enterprises, welfare and creative activities, cultural projects and higher education - a place where ideas are exchanged, a symbolic place where new ways of "using" the city can be tested amidst splendid architecture, paths, flights of steps, thickets, majestic oaks, lawns and flowerbeds of roses and camellia.