The Masone Labyrinth by Franco Maria Ricci – an extraordinary cultural park with the largest bamboo labyrinth in the world: " I dreamt for the first time of building a Labyrinth about thirty years ago, during the period in which, on several occasions, I had a friend, as well as a very important collaborator of the publishing house I had founded, in my country house near Parma: the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
The Labyrinth, it is known, has always been one of his favourite themes; and the trajectories that his hesitant blind steps drew around me made me think of the uncertainties of those who move between bifurcations and enigmas.
I think looking at him, and talking to him about men’s strange paths…
formed the first embryo of the project that I finally opened to the public in June 2015.
As is well known, when he had his Labyrinth built, which was a prison, Minos had dark and cruel intentions; I imagined a sweetened equivalent, which was also a Garden, where people could walk around, leaving from time to time, but without danger."
