Parco agricolo Sud Milano forms a half-circle around Milan. It borders with Ticino Park in the west and Adda Park in the east. The Park aims at safeguarding agricultural activities, cultivated fields, and woodlands, protecting natural places, enhancing the historical and architectural heritage, recovering the environment and landscape in degraded areas, inform and lead visitors to a respectful use of the environmental resources. The Park is characterized by its thick agricultural network with its rich net of natural watercourses and artificial ditches, and by the rural road network. Corn fields alternate with water meadows; tree rows mark the borders of the fields and run along the watercourses. Ancient farmsteads and precious rural towns are scattered throughout the territory.