A dream for Europe: a european fairytales road
What if the Little Mermaid from Denmark met Pippi Longstockings on a Sunday family walk? How could they say hallo? And what if Don Chisciotte came across Peter Pan halfway between Spain and Uk, would they recognize theirs are both strange fights?
Seemingly these are the weird and fun questions that came across my mind the first time that i kept thinking about this inspiring idea, creating one unique fairytales road for the whole Europe, unifying countries from north to south, and characters of all kinds, with one common side. They are the inhabitants of any child fantasy, therefore they exist.
All the historical roads crossing europe were not created, they were simply the best ways to link religious or pilgrimages main spots, answering the urgence of a population who did not part everyday life from life after death: this happened for the Francigena road, for the Romea track and for many others, until Jerusalem.
A European fairytales road is an unprecedently tried experiment of truly starting to share cultures within Europe: we’ve been spending years in finding common rules because we have a common cultural heritage, but one of the most difficult things to realize is a cultural exchange between the diverse countries, so peculiar they are. This inspiring project was indeed started from the inspiring (no wonder!) magic world of Pinocchio: the Collodi Foundation presented the project at the European Cultural committee in Brussels, and it was immediately spotted as one of the best projects since centuries.
The fairytales road is already a reality in Collodi, now. Let’s make it happen throughout Europe.
Read More at http://www.virtualpinocchio.eu/
