Livio Furinia versatile and visionary character in which 70s laid the foundation for what would later become tourism and the trade of the lake Garda, based on fun, culture, learning and hospitality. He was the creator, Designers and founder of Gardaland: He didn’t achieve it in either 3 years, from 1972 to July 19, 1975, the date on which the inauguration took place. He managed to acquire the property in order to build what would later become the most important amusement park in Italy. He created it there Company of which he became president, but within less than a year he was ousted from the board and left his creation after a few years. Today the park belongs to the English giant Merlin Entertainments, with global entertainment brands and over a thousand employees. Furini’s daughters, Elena and Rossella, and his wife Giuliana dedicated a documentary to him to commemorate the achievements he accomplished in just a few decades. However, the community has already named one after him Street near the Frassino sanctuary.
Previously deceased
“After Gardaland, he promoted numerous companies for the management, promotion and construction of amusement parks and recreational activities throughout Italy. We still have them Models. His aim was cultural tourism and not just pure entertainment. Projects that he never realized because against it from the local councils who wanted their part,” says his daughter Elena, 61 years old and already a drawing and art history teacher. Livio Furini then also entered the business Groceries and he was the entrepreneur who opened it first supermarket by Veronese: He did it in Peschiera del Garda, where he had moved from his native Legnago, and built the “C+C”, the city’s historic market, located in front of the Pederzoli Hospital. Unfortunately, Furini had a very intense but also very short life: born on December 16th 1932died of an illness on June 13th at the age of only 54 1987. He was a volcano full of ideas and left the family an enormous amount of material.
Artist and merchant
“Drawings, projects, sketches, notes, whether from him or from commissioned designers or from the two of us sisters who had attended art school and started working with him. Then I did it the academy He is a professor of fine arts and I taught for many years – explains his daughter Elena –. However, my father was born primarily as Musician. Was Orchestra director In Legnago he composed several pieces of sacred and profane music, which he performed for choir and orchestra in various locations, for example in the Piccola Scala in Milan, in the church of San Luca in Verona, in Fumane and in the Sanctuary of Madonna del Frassino in Peschiera. In the summer he worked for them trade and tourism and winter he instead spent composing pieces of music. He was also a poet and wrote musical poems dialect also with Tolo Da Re.” To celebrate and honor her mother Giuliana’s 90th birthday on October 9th, her daughters organized the screening of Movie(for the first time and for a private audience), for tomorrow afternoon at the conference center of the Parc Hotel Paradiso and Golf Resort in Peschiera del Garda.
The castle and the villages in costumes
The film, which lasts over an hour, was shot by the documentary director Paolo Cassina and interviews and recollections from Furini’s associates, friends and relatives will flow through. You can also see how Gardaland came to be, with the first internal routes and themed areas like that Medieval castle At the entrance the train with its tunnel Disney-likethe Japanese bridge over the Dugale stream and, above all, the first Villages In costume: the western, the Indian, the African, the pony path and more, told in the documentary by Alfredo Laino, an important Neapolitan nativity scene designer who, at the time, created the medieval castle, the African village and the cave of the train.