The Children

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The Childrens City

• A real city, exclusively thought for children
  from 4 to 17, was born in Cosenza in 2003.
• The City, with its 33,000 square meter area, is
  certainly the largest area destined to young
  people currently existing in Italy natural
  center of the politics on infancy and
  adolescence, it turns to assure rights and
  opportunities to children and teen-agers.
  Inaugurated in November 2003, the City has
  already recorded a strong answer on the
  territory, picking up adhesions from schools,
  families and citizens.
• Not a museum, not a baby parking but a creative
  meeting place, the City is one of the few Italian
  examples endowed with numerous proposals of
  diversion, going from the game to the art
  laboratory, from the collective moments to the
  individual relationship with the virtual
  dimension, from the being spectator to the being
  inventor.
• Interactive center of experimentation, the City
  aims at favouring the spirit of responsibility,
  autonomy and growth of children and teen-agers,
  as well as their sense of being active citizens.
• The City is divided in outdoor and indoor spaces,
  the last ones built in forms of caskets of
  various colours according to their finalities.
• The symbol of the casket has become the mark of
  the City itself it derives from the old legend
  of the fierce Visigoth king Alaric, buried with
  his treasure and his horse, at the confluence of
  the rivers Crati and Busento. The caskets here
  evoke the metaphor of the treasure hidden in any
  boy and girl, which the City wants to discover,
  considering its children and teen-agers a
  precious resource for future.
• The red casket is the toy library, the yellow one
  is devoted to communication and shows, the white
  casket is the social area, while the blue casket
  is the laboratory area.

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Panoramic view of the City
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The Red casket (toy library) It is the area in
which the inalienable right to the game is
realized in all its forms and educational
potentialities
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The Green space the gardens of the City
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The White casket It is the social area of the
City
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The green space is naturally predominant and,
very important thing, deals with a protected
space in which the children can freely circulate