Thanks to Enel Sole,
the Montagnola park in Bologna:
between history and innovation
T
he Montagnola Park has been the first public
garden in Bologna. Its crucial location between
the train station and the bus station makes it, on the
one hand, the gateway to the city for those coming
from outside and, on the other, an aggregation point.
Dating back to the end of the nineteenth century,
is the monumental entrance staircase – the Pincio
di Bologna, designed in 1896 by Tito Azzolini
and Attilio Muggia, at the base of which
is a fountain sculpted by Diego Sarti and Pietro
Veronesi – can be seen from the station square.
The staircase is adorned by 60 cast iron candelabra,
each with 4 lighting devices: 3 globes and a lantern.
Enel Sole designed and realized the new lighting
of the Montagnola Park, combining aesthetic
requirements and citizens safety.
The redevelopment project affected the whole park:
the obsolete sodium luminaires of the garden and
of the Pincio have been replaced with 97 new
Schreder LED lanterns, thus improving
the night usability and increasing the safety
of the site. All this while preserving the historical
and artistical value of the garden.
The historic staircase candelabras have been
maintained and, thanks to a unique solution
developed in collaboration with Litek, they can
now live a new life. In addition, the old mercury
vapour lamps have been replaced by a LED plate
that made it possible to preserve the artistic
appliances and to ensure a reduction in energy
consumption as well as an improvement
in lighting quality.
The solutions chosen for the globes and lanterns
(two 20W and 46W retrofit LED modules,
respectively) led to the historic and artistic
enhancement of the Pincio di Bologna, improving
the luminous efficiency and achieving optimum
energy-saving results.
The lighting enhancement of the Montagnola Park
is part of Enel Sole’s wider process of redevelopment
of the public lighting systems of the Municipality
of Bologna. The project involves the installation
of about 33,000 LED luminaires, the replacement
of 1.000 kilometres of power lines with aluminium
cables and the activation of a telecontrol system
for the management of each single appliance.
An intervention that will allow the City to save
over 60% of energy, cutting maintenance costs
and reducing CO2 emissions.
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