The highest swing in Europe has been
inaugurated in Italy's first high-adrenaline experience
adventure park in Sicily.
The 16-metre-high structure was unveiled at San Mauro
Castelverde, in the province of Palermo, by Mayor Giuseppe
Minutilla and the swing's builders Giovanni Nicolosi and
Guglielmo Speciale, founders of the Zipline Sicilia company
which also runs a zipline a short distance away inside the park,
which also offers dinghy escursions on the rapids of the Gole di
Tiberio.
Talking of the swing, Mayor Minutilla said that "with this
structure we have completed a course that has changed the face
of San Mauro, while also giving hope to young people and to the
village.
"We have emerged from oblivion and finally today people are
talking about San Mauro no longer as a village with a mafia
'mandamento' (branch), but as a village of change.
"Thanks to these adrenalin-fuelled realities we are at the
centre of the world and all this has created employment hopes
too.
"Our economy is starting to change too and from purely agrarian
it could become varied, offering the possbility to young people
to stay here instead of moving to northern Italy or abroad for
jobs".
The new swing opens out onto a valley that is 300 metres deep.
photo: San Mauro Castelverde
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