Gulliver park
Giant reclining comic-book sculpture with built-in ramps and slides in a former riverbed garden.
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This guide to Gulliver park in Valencia follows architect Rafael Rivera's decision to build a playground unlike any catalog of swings and seesaws: a seventy-metre reclining giant modeled on Jonathan Swift's shipwrecked Gulliver. It traces how the project passed through a fallero sculptor whose first attempt looked more like a body on a table, and a comic illustrator who redrew the figure into the ramps and slides children climb today. You'll also hear about the more than one hundred craftspeople who built it using techniques from Valencia's festival monuments. Look for the folds of his clothing doubling as slides as you make your way across him.
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