Goldoni talks about "GRIFONE"

Luca Goldoni, renowed journalist, writer and observer of italian society, considers the Grifone Club milano project a stroke of genius and has written anthusiastically about it:

"When people first talked me about the Grifone project, I was struck by how original it was, yet, at the same time, I had already heard that story. Suddently, I got it! I was lstening about the Paradise on Earth..."

"Among all the reason behind this project, which range from sport to health to the back-to-nature call, to active relaxation, I was especially impressed by the desire to safeguard the cohesion of the family."

"The right exploitation of the free time, as the time we feel free to organise to our linking, is a problem and also typically italian-tessue particurly felt.

The Chineses do gymnastics, the South-Americans siestas, the Russians play chess, the Germans go to Cesenatico and the Japaneses produce.

We are creative and therefore we have a problem.

I've seen people get along on the job and show solidarity during war times, but it's the free time that divide us. And it separates mainly those who, as the Gospel says, God has united. I don't want to linger on family disputes while on vacation, too much has already been written, said and shown about it.

My generation laughed at the sketches where the houseband wanted to go to the mountains while the wife opted for the sea. Today it's the same: time-tested relationship collapse between a tent and a camper.

"A centre which caters to the desire for entertainments for the whole family, wich is seen as a whole made up of as many needs as there are family members.

These words, from the program of the Grifone project, should be written in the same way in our Repubblic Constitution, which hase forgotten the thorny issue of the varied entertainment.

Another solution among those Grifone offers, is the possibility of matching entertainment times with the work times.

We've been led to believe that dream locations can be accessed only after long trips, farter they are and dreamier they should be... only to find out that they are always some other place.

Now we know the whole world, except for the next door limited slice of territory: a Club for the family, better say for the dynasty, beacuse the new-born nephew can be in the nursery while the grandfather tries out grafting in the greenhouse and the other family members choose between sports and hobbies. On their own, at last, but still close. That is an old family aspiration".

"Not a paradise to dream about, hidden in some far away time zone.A place to live. Just a walk from Milan."