This is a park located within the city walls, redefined by the urbanistic Beddini Luciano Luciano and implemented by architect Piermarini.

According to tradition, was once intended to define a space in a duel according to the law reviews of Lombard, which later became the burial place of the Jews. Until the end of the eighteenth century, this vast space and stretched near the walls has been defined field Francalancia, name of the son of Fierdilancia Robbacastelli, its former owner. The range from the sixteenth century Francalancia rises gradually, until, in 1776, when the strip of land adjacent to the walls has become an avenue for the walking and horse racing, a consortium of citizens is offered at their own expense to restore the stretch of wall in ruins, in exchange for "seats" from which the races. The construction of the characteristic brick seats, sofa, Foligno with the families of the notables who financed the construction, gives the actual name of this green area. From this point it takes a new look, permanent body that will take the next two centuries.

In 1825 project outlines the design of the square and set up the sunken central floor in the shape of the circus and bounded by two parallel paths; to the 1836 was the final arrangement of the semicircle, leads to the Santa Maria and only 1853 dates back to the plant the first trees.

Even the architect Vincenzo Vitali city is interested in this area, providing, through a project 1874, which among other things will remain only on paper, its connection to the public gardens of Porta Romana, he himself made the previous year.

In implementation of the Master Plan prepared in 1928, it defines the area of ​​the walk of Canapés, that 1931 is transformed into a park with the planting of 308 pine, the design of paths and flower beds, the installation of stone benches along the paths and the construction of stairs leading from Via Nazario Sauro.

In 1935, finally, the location, the center, the monumental fountain, by Nicola Brunelli (1933), placed first in the current Republic Square.

Accessibility

Access to the park via two wide erased that facilitate the transition, a, floor, and the other being Chiavelli, the opposite side, Port near Todi, asphalt with a climb of about 40 meters with a slope of no more than 8%. The park has parking spaces reserved for disabled people in front of both inputs, Via the Chiavelli (which is flat) and the opposite site near Port Todi (asphalt on top of the hill). The avenue oval that surrounds the park is concrete and brick on the inside cromofibra, with a length of about 450 meters; is well cared for and has no slope, holes or depressions, while the roads inside the meadows of pinewood with a layer of gravel rather high, not easy to travel in a wheelchair. Inside the park there are public toilets, available also by the disabled and a small cafe open during the summer.

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