Collodi is the village where Carlo Lorenzini, the author of the Adventures of Pinocchio, spent her childhood and from which later drew his pseudonym. In 1956 was built a memorial park of traditional character constituted by a grove of oak trees which surrounds a stone-paved square and bounded by walls shaped. The walls were decorated with mosaic, with scenes from the story of Pinocchio by artist Venturino Venturi, and also the flooring, from the same made, plays, top view, an abstract work. The shaping of the perimetral walls had to converse with the boxwood hedges similarly shaped that delimit the eighteenth-century park of the neighboring Villa Garzoni; in its own space, near the entrance, was instead placed the bronze sculpture by Emilio Greco. With the passing of the years the park was enriched with new achievements.
The park is conceived as a theme park for the education of the children it is not the usual amusement park, but rather a place where one has the feeling of retrace a fairy tale living inside a path marked by marriage between art and nature. Near the entrance you meets sculpture by Emilio Greco of Pinocchio and the Fairy, at a flowerbed arranged to draw the effigy of the famous puppet. Follows a zone with a theater and a refreshment. The Piazzetta dei mosaici preserves the mosaics by Venturino Venturi. Follows the “Village of Pinocchio” and the various sculptures by Pietro Consagra (the Carabinieri, the Cat and the Fox and the snake), Marco Zanuso and Augusto (Bobo) Small (the Great White Shark).