Farinetti launches Grand Tour Italia, the brand new gastronomic park that can be constructed on the “ruins” of Fico
Oscar Farinetti he tries once more. After the flop of Fico, the “Disneyland of made in Italy meals” which remained open from 2017 to December 2023, now the entrepreneur and founding father of Eataly lancia Grand Tour Italia. The inauguration, as reported Cibo Todayis ready for September 5, 2024.
The new gastronomic park can be inbuilt the identical areas because the outdated construction, in Bologna. And among the many numerous regional pavilions with specialty markets, typical taverns and cooking programs, there may be additionally a bookshop, an amusement park and a go-kart circuit.
Unlike Fico, the brand new mission will take pleasure in some new benefits. For instance, the activation of a tram line connecting to the middle, the creation of the non permanent stadium of Bologna FCalong with the opening of the CAAB, Bologna Agri-Food Centre, proper subsequent door and now accessible (on sure days) for residents to buy.
“Grand Tour Italia it’s far more than only a vacationer vacation spot,” he declares Farinetti, “is a tribute to the extraordinary variety and cultural richness of our nation, an invite to discover, style and expertise Italy in all its splendor”. To anybody who has visited a big nationwide merchandise honest — the Vinitaly, for instance – the conceptual framework of fifty thousand sq. meters is not going to sound new. Inside Grand Tour Italia every of the 20 areas may have its personal devoted area.
It will due to this fact not solely be a chance to go looking for native delicacies, but in addition to go to instructional areas together with gastronomic tradition programs, cooking classes and meals schooling. Coordinated with the Holden School of Turin for the historical past and tradition sector, Coldiretti for agriculture and at last Slow Food for meals and wine biodiversity.
But not solely. In the brand new Farinetti park there may also be a big area for leisure. From the photographic exhibitions of Earth Foundation — the cultural basis of group Eataly — to the library ‘The Masterpieces’with 1,200 titles together with essays and youngsters’s books, each for session and on the market (together with second-hand).
Finally, for the youthful ones there may be as a substitute Luna Farm, the amusement park that goals to imitate ‘farmer Gianni’s farm’, with 6,500 sq. meters stuffed with rides, video games and video video games. Instead, he declares himself ‘in concord with the Motor Valley emiliana’ probably the most curious addenda: the Grand Tour Kartinga go-kart circuit of over 500 meters with zero-emission electrical karts.