Quarto Oggiaro

Quarto Oggiaro (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkwarto odˈdʒaːro]; Lombard: Quart Oggiee [ˈkwɑːrt uˈdʒeː]) is a district of Milan in the north-west of the city.

The district has expanded through a series of housing projects, especially in the sixties, becoming a great dormitory neighborhood, and it took many years before the locals could enjoy basic services.

The commercial area of the district developed along Via Federico De Roberto with numerous shops, along Via Fratelli Antona Traversi with the Municipal Market and at the intersection of Via Lessona and Via Carlo Amoretti.

Each project has a name: More than 50 years have passed since the birth of modern Quarto Oggiaro, and it continues to have a peculiar identity, due to its peripheral location, enclosed by the railways, and the development plan that led to the construction of the district.

The Associazione Quarto Oggiaro Vivibile,[3] a neighborhood association operating since the early 80's, manages the park located between Villa Scheibler and Via Carolina Invernizio, which until the seventies housed a gypsy camp.

The social houses within the district have been fully restored, and a pedestrian area was created in 2008 in Via De Roberto, in front of the church of Santa Lucia.

The EuroMilano company,[4] entrusted a project to the British designer Diana Armstrong Bell and in the late 90s and early 2000s, has enhanced an area of over 450,000 m2 (4,843,760 sq ft), creating a new fine residential district.

Almost half of the area, 200,000 sqm, has become a park named after the activist and MP Franco Verga, located among the railway, the new residential complex and Via Dante Chiasserini.

Quarto Oggiaro is connected to the city center by the bridge of Via Filippo Palizzi, refurbished in the late nineties, which crosses the Turin-Milan railway.

Other significant roads of the district includes Via Fratelli Antona Traversi, Via Cesare Pascarella, Via Sebastiano Satta, Via Privata Trilussa and Via Arturo Graf.

Le Torri in Via De Roberto n. 5, seen from Via Fratelli Antona Traversi
EuroMilano towers as seen from the roundabout of Via Palizzi