Class Tourism near Lake Garda (Peschiera del Garda)

Think about Disneyland, make it smaller and replace Mickey Mouse, Goofy & Co. with an ugly puppy, meant to be a dragon. Give him the worst name that comes to your mind (in this case, someone decided to call him Prezzemolo, "Parsley"), and you'll know what Gardaland is. With its area of 540.000 square meters, this amusement park is visited by 3.2 million hit-and-run tourists every year, welcomed by a giant Prezzemolo statue overbearing the Peschiera del Garda railway station. Maybe in the area of Lake of Garda blows a strange wind, as confirmed by the MART, which collects almost 10,000 artworks from the historical avant-gardes. Both were built as tourist attractions, but for different classes of tourist. What are the different statements for the region do these two different landmarks make? Who are they built to attract? What kind of tourist spening what kind of money? Are they more alike than meets the eye?
Mission by Elisa Arpe, Alberto Andreetto
Look at this mission also on Check-in Architecture website http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/mission/213, on Picasa Web Album http://picasaweb.google.com/checkinarchitecture/ParsleyAndDuchampClassTourism..., on MiniSpace http://www.minispace.com/it_it/projects/check-in-architecture/missions/single..., or on Google Earth http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/index/earth/mission/213.kml

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Travel & Events

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• entertainment
• green
• infrastructure
• landscape
• mobility
• tourism