A new cultural hub dedicated to Natalia Ginzburg opened in Castel Maggiore (Bologna).

In Castel Maggiore, in the province of Bologna, the Parco del Sapere "Ginzburg," a new cultural and socialization hub where people can read, study and meet, has been inaugurated inside Calipari Park. The Knowledge Park will house the library and multipurpose facility, with reading rooms for toddlers and teenagers and spaces for concerts, exhibitions, cultural initiatives and conferences.

Built with a 5 million euro investment by the Castel Maggiore Municipality, the complex consists of two main structures: the library and the multipurpose facility with civic rooms for exhibitions and conferences.

The three-story library has a large multifunctional hall designed for reception, a newspaper and fiction library, a cafeteria, areas for children and adolescents, a space dedicated to group activities, as well as large reading areas. An outdoor steps may be used as a small theater or outdoor cinema.

The project is closely related to its host park. The area occupies an area of 4 percent of the entire Calipari Park. Environmentally friendly solutions aimed at energy saving were adopted for this project: certified materials, photovoltaic panels, rainwater recovery and reuse system, and a home automation system to manage the systems for the comfort and safety of the occupants. After a competition of ideas that saw eighty project designs, a participatory process was chosen and initiated by involving students from the nearby “Keynes” high school, representatives of schools, the Municipal Youth Council and the Youth Council, library users and librarians with meetings during which the designers gathered impressions, opinions and evaluated proposals for modification and refinement.

“Today we see a beautiful participation project becoming a reality,” stressed Emilia-Romagna Regional President Stefano Bonaccini. “At the disposal of children and adults, at the service of the community, born from a competition of ideas from young people and readers, which will be able to become a point of reference and access to culture and knowledge for the citizens of Castel Maggiore, starting with the many children who attend nearby schools. Here, immersed in the park, it will be possible to study, attend a concert, visit an exhibition, or simply be together.”

“We need to have physical places capable of fostering dialogue between generations and the desire for sociability,” he added. “And it is important that the knowledge park and two halls be named after the writer Natalia Ginzburg and the journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Maria Grazia Cutuli, to remind us that journalism, the telling of facts carried out freely and independently, is as necessary as bread in our lives, especially in the historical phase we are living. And that women’s work must find more and more space and recognition in our society.”

A new cultural hub dedicated to Natalia Ginzburg opened in Castel Maggiore (Bologna).

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