Ai Pioppi: An Amusement Park Built yesteryear One Man

In the Italian town of Nervesa della Battaglia , almost 45 kilometers due north of Venice , is a eatery named Ai Pioppi. Aside from the nutrient together with beer , its biggest attraction are the rides , swings , together with giant merry-go-rounds that the restaurant’s possessor Bruno has built almost single-handedly.

Ai Poppi’s storey began nearly 50 years agone , when Bruno , on a whim , bought a few jugs of vino together with several pounds of sausage together with ready a tiny nutrient stall nether the shade of a tree to run across if anyone would demo up. In simply ii or iii hours he had sold everything.

After establishing a proper eatery , Bruno went to the local blacksmith to accept a few hooks joined to simply about chairs. But the blacksmith was likewise busy , together with and hence Bruno decided that he would acquire to weld himself. Once he had learned the fine art , Bruno started envisioning all sorts of things that he could add together to his eatery to entice people. One matter led to simply about other , together with xl years afterward he had a amount fledged entertainment commons inwards the woods amongst whimsical rides , swings , slides together with fifty-fifty a human powered rollercoaster that shoots downward a sloped track.

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Bruno together with Ai Poppi became the plain of written report of a short film produced yesteryear Coleman Guyon together with Luiz Romero , inwards 2013 , lending Bruno’s creation a wider audience.

In the cinema , Bruno ruminates on the hereafter of his honey park. “I wishing it would operate on running similar this ,” he says. “But I can't impose my ideas on my successors ... I would operate out that selection to them."

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