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April 22, 2009 | User: admin | Channel: checkin-architecture

Tags: 70s | downsize | gulliver's theme | maxi | mini | minitalia | park | psychedelic | realsize | supersize | tourist | travels

min: 3:00

Built in the 70s as tourist trap for the families of factory workers that couldn't afford to travel for real around Italy, Minitalia has become a classic day-trip destination for generations of school kids and families. Consisting of vintage handmade reproductions of Italian monuments and cities in a 1:50 scale, the park represents a rupture from class-based “edutainment” into the truly weird.

Mission by Cosimo Pichierri, Marco Trinca Colonel