A Maze in Italy!

Parma, Italy

This article is about a man called Franco Maria Ricci that made the world's largest maze in Parma, Italy, is called the Mazone Labyrinth. It is a 20-acre, star-shaped bamboo labyrinth, he wanted to inspire wonder and curiosity in the people to have this extreme adventure of getting lost in a maze. In 1998 he sold his house to build this labyrinth.
He was inspired in a conversation he once had with his friend Jorge Luis Borges, and Argertinian writer and poet, and since then he started to work in his labyrinth to accomplish his dream, and this labyrinth eclipsed the Dole's Pineapple Garden Maze in Hawaii which was the largest maze until the Mazone Labyrinth was created.
Ricci wanted to see his creation fully grown in his lifetime and is why he used 200,000 bamboo plants to create his maze, in part because it is one of the fastest-rowing plants on Earth, and also because the bamboo plants are very strong.

I love it! Is so amazing when people wants to create something new and they do it, even if friends or family say that it is impossible, that is what Jorge Luis Borges told Franco Maria Ricci when he came with the idea to make the largest labyrinth. I like that Ricci was persistent in making what he wanted: creating a labyrinth were people can get lost, because he says that getting lost is unforgettable for everyone.

I like that he was inspired in what Borges told him about that a labyrinth is a metaphor of the human conditions, and the fact that it simbolyzes the human path, because is so deep and it is true, sometimes people get the track off or simply they get lost, but in some way we have to find the way to get out of there.

Borges loves writing about that kind of themes.

And, another fact that is amazing is that it reminds me Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. J.K. Rowling writes that the last task of the tournament was in an enchanted maze. Harry's task was to find the Goblet of Fire inside the maze but he first needed to answer some conundrums and fight with people inside, and aditionally the maze changes inside.

That is one of my favorite books and if I go to Italy I will like to go to that maze to simply get lost.

Article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/get-lost-worlds-largest-maze-180955903/?utm_source=twitter.com&no-ist