The best running trails around Arese

Villa Arconati, located in Castellazzo di Bollate and nicknamed the "little Lombard Versailles", is one of the most majestic examples of a Baroque villa di delizia in Italy. The residence is entirely nestled in the green heart of the Parco delle Groane and the Brughiera Briantea, perfectly integrating art, monumental architecture, and nature.

The Villa Visconti Borromeo Arese Litta, located in Lainate (on the outskirts of Milan), is one of the most famous and spectacular "delight villas" in Northern Italy. Conceived at the end of the 16th century by Count Pirro I Visconti Borromeo, the residence is universally famous for its extraordinary Nymphaeum with water features, a masterpiece of hydraulic engineering and artistic decoration unique in Europe, designed to amaze, refresh, and entertain the nobles of the time.

The Parco della Rosa Camuna in Lainate (MI) is a green area of 52,000㎡ known for its artificial pond in the shape of a Rosa Camuna, the symbol of Lombardy. Fed by the Villoresi canal, the park offers cycle and pedestrian paths, wooden walkways, and wooded areas, consolidating the relationship between the Lura stream and the Villoresi canal. The Rosa Camuna is one of the most famous rock carvings in Valcamonica, dating back to the Iron Age (7th-6th century BC). It represents a four-armed whirligig with 9 cupels (dots) and often symbolizes a star, and has been adopted by the Lombardy Region as its own emblem.

The Garbagnate Milanese railway station serves the town of the same name and is located along the railway line from Milan to Saronno. It opened in 1879. The Garbagnate Milanese railway station consists of five tracks served by regional trains, all operated by Trenitalia, with destinations in Milan Cadorna, Novate Milanese, Bollate Centro, and Castellazzo di Bollate, with trains running on average every twenty minutes. The Garbagnate Milanese station building is not accessible to passengers with reduced mobility, but it is equipped with restrooms, a ticket machine, and a waiting room. Outside, there is a car park and a bus stop.

Villa Arconati (also called Palazzo Arconati), popularly known as the Castellazzo, is one of the historic villas of the Groane Park, located in Bollate, in the Castellazzo di Bollate hamlet which takes its name from it. It is an example of eighteenth-century Lombard baroque and has been declared a national monument. Due to its size and grandiose style, in eighteenth-century guides it was defined as the petite Versailles italienne ("small Italian Versailles").

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In the middle of the countryside towards Garbagnate

Villa Visconti Borromeo Arese Litta, known as Villa Litta di Lainate, was built in the sixteenth century by Pirro I Visconti Borromeo inspired by the Medici villas in Tuscany. It is certainly worth visiting the sixteenth-century buildings, the park and the nymphaeum. The latter boasts an astonishing array of statues, frescoes, mosaics, fountains and grotesques.