REFORESTATION PLAN APPROVED

28 Febbraio 2025

The Management Board of the Villa Reale and Monza Park Consortium at its meeting on February 21, 2025 has
approved the Collaboration Agreement with Automobile Club d’Italia,
Lambro Valley Regional Park and Lombardy Region for the execution of reforestation, forest reconstruction
and maintenance works in the northern area of the Park, inside the Autodrome grounds, where the
collapse of about ten thousand trees was recorded following the wave of bad weather that hit
Brianza in July 2023.
The total value of the Agreement is €3,380,000.00, of which €2,612,950.82 was made available
by the Lombardy Region and the remainder by ACI through the implementing party.
The project aims at forest reconstruction based on naturalistic criteria, i.e., aimed at seeking the
right tuning of the ecosystem with climatic and fertility characteristics and encouraging spontaneous forest renewal processes in the next
years. Three phases of work are envisaged: planning;
preparation, reforestation and cultivation treatments lasting 5 years; and maintenance
every four years to consolidate and preserve the results obtained with previous work and ensure the
definitive establishment of a new forest. The development will be supervised by a special technical
scientific committee composed of representatives of the Lombardy Region, ACI, the Villa Reale and Park Consortium of
Monza and the Lambro Valley Regional Park.
“It is a medium-long term intervention of high complexity, both for the exceptional
landscape, cultural and naturalistic relevance of the affected areas – the damages have affected all
forest areas inside the Autodromo and have been substantial near the Bosco Bello – and for the
financial resources and expertise required. The Collaboration Agreement will make it possible to develop
the full potential of joint action, ensuring historical preservation, repair
of the ecosystem and containment of its potential floristic and structural degradation. We are united
in our desire to restore and enhance places that are dear to the people of Monza and that make up a
heritage of absolute regional and national interest,” says Paolo Pilotto, president of the
Consorzio Villa Reale e Parco di Monza.

“We have guaranteed emergency response and safety interventions between summer 2023 and the following winter
. The calamity of July 2023 helped strengthen our willingness to collaborate with
public entities involved in safeguarding the forest heritage, in this specific case we
committed ourselves to carrying out functional interventions to fully restore the damaged areas of which we are
concessionaires. Our participation in this forest improvement program highlights
how the protection and enhancement of greenery is at the top of our list of objectives. The result of
this commitment has resulted in the planting of 8 thousand plants over the past year,”
says Giuseppe Redaelli, President of Autodromo Nazionale Monza.
“Nature, with the increasing violence of atmospheric phenomena, in 2023 has accomplished in one day and
half what it takes man 20 years and more to do. With this important funding, we are intervening in
a forested area whose condition, at the time of the disaster, was already compromised and for this reason
has long been the object of attention. In little more than a year, we are responding and reacting to such
devastation, with complex interventions to restore irreparably damaged forest tracts and
works that lay the foundations for an increasingly virtuous management of the forest heritage of
Monza Park. I would like to thank all those involved, especially the Lombardy Region and the councillor
of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests, Alessandro Beduschi,” so Marco Ciceri, president
of the Lambro Valley Regional Park.
“This intervention is a fundamental step in the reconstruction of the forest heritage of
Monza Park, which was hard hit by the extreme events of 2023. Thanks to the joint efforts
of the institutions involved, we are not only restoring the damaged areas, but we are doing so with a
long-term vision, ensuring sustainable forest management in harmony with
the ecosystem. The Park, which during the Grand Prix becomes an international showcase of
Lombardy, will once again become a fully usable green lung, a place of identity for
citizens and an example of environmental protection and landscape enhancement,” is the comment of
Alessandro Beduschi, regional councillor for Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry.