Il patrimonio botanico del parco urbano della Mostra d'Oltremare

The story of the 1st Triennial Exhibition of the Italian Overseas Lands has been analyzed, over the years, by a large critical literature from different angles. It seems interesting to re-read the episode from the perspective of a model of a large green park on an urban scale, conceived in a forward-looking and modern way, in order to meet all the qualitative and dimensional requirements of an embryonic city. the Mostra d'Oltremare in the new perspective of transformation of the western area, could rediscover its urban role and recover its relationship with the city, reconnecting with its function as an urban park and acting as the pulsating center of a wider green system to be to define. The rich botanical heritage preserved at the Mostra d'Oltremare, a treasure trove of biodiversity, in fact, appears eighty years after its foundation as the only significant resource of urban green in the western area of Naples.