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Parco della Pellerina

The Parco della Pellerina, officially Parco Mario Carrara, is Turin's largest urban park: about 837,000 square metres crossed diagonally by the Dora Riparia, between Corso Regina Margherita, Corso Appio Claudio, Via Pietro Cossa and Corso Lecce, in Circoscrizione 4.[1][2] According to MuseoTorino, when it was completed in the 1980s it was the largest urban park in Italy.[1]

The names

The name comes from Cascina Pellerina, at Via Pietro Cossa 263, once owned by the Tana family: the place is documented as «Valle Pellerina» from the sixteenth century, and the name is linked to Via Pellegrina, a stretch of the Via Francigena between Rivoli and Turin.[1][3] The southern part of the park is dedicated to Mario Carrara (1866-1937), an anthropologist at the University of Turin and one of only twelve professors out of twelve hundred who refused to swear an oath of allegiance to Fascism; since 2009 the northern part has been named after the seven workers who died in the ThyssenKrupp fire of 6 December 2007.[1]

History

The park was first proposed in the 1906 city plan; initial work, in 1934, used rubble from the old Via Roma, the major expansion as far as Corso Lecce took place in 1970-1975, and it was completed between 1980 and 1989.[1] Cascina Pellerina, an enclosed farmstead, now belongs to the San Giovanni Battista hospital and is in poor condition.[3]

The park today

The park has a swimming pool, football and tennis courts, a skating rink, a BMX track and bocce courts, two artificial lakes with ducks, coots and swans, and a natural pond that formed after the flood of October 2000.[2] In 2024 the area in front of the swimming pool was renovated with 41 water features and 19 new trees.[4] In May 2025 a pump failure left the pond almost dry, as reported by the Salviamo la Pellerina committee.[5] On 13 September 2026 the park hosted the Festa dello Sport, with more than fifty associations taking part.[6]

Timeline

  • — More than 500 people take part in the tenth edition of the «Fitwalking for AIL Torino» walk at Parco della Pellerina, raising funds for blood cancer research. → TorinoOggi

Pages linking here

Sources

  1. MuseoTorino
  2. Città di Torino — 16 January 2026
  3. MuseoTorino
  4. Torino Oggi — 15 May 2024
  5. Torino Oggi — 9 May 2025
  6. Torino Oggi — 26 August 2026

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