'Italian restaurant owner hand-builds theme park in his spare time'

"Hidden among the trees of an Italian forest," Romero explains, "Bruno has been building swings, slides, seesaws, gyroscopes and roller-coasters for the last forty years. They are his passion and a way to attract clients to Ai Pioppi, the restaurant he runs with his family. 
Throughout this short documentary, his hand-powered toys move alongside his thoughts about existence and death; and why he spent more than half of his life creating rides."

 

 

"It's funny because I didn't expect it. I didn't imagine it would be such a great success.'

In the documentary, he ruminates on the future of his beloved park as he contemplates retirement.
He said: 'I wish it would keep running like this.
'There's an Italian proverb that says, "you shouldn't change a winning horse", but I can't impose my ideas on my successors, because everyone has a different point of view. I will leave it up to them."

Photos of the park can be seen on Flickr.

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