You just have to wait for over a year and Italy will welcome you to the world’s first food themed amusement park. Opening in 2018, the park the FICO Eataly park spread over 20 acres and is a venture of Eataly- Mario Bataly and Joe Bastianich’s chain of Italian food stores. To be launched at Bologna, the park promises to be a treat for foodies, also educating them about the preparation and origin of different ingredients and dishes at its 25 restaurants and 40 workshops. In addition, the park holds 500 adult-sized, bright-colored tricycles equipped with shopping baskets, which are apparently the first hybrid bike/shopping carts to be made available in a retail space. What’s more, you can enjoy the sight of grazing lands nine different kinds of cows, five kinds of pigs, five kinds of goats, five kinds of sheep, rabbit, geese, and guinea hens. Whew! That’s quite the Farmville style park! And in case you’re wondering what kind of amusement park comes without rides, fear not—there’s a host of virtual reality rides with names like “Man and Fire”, “Man and Future” and “Man and Bottle” of which the second was designed in collaboration with MIT. Now that’s what we call a real spread!
