Imagine the excitement of living in Lombardy at the end of the 1960s: a region in full expansion, full of work and opportunities, where petit-bourgeois families were beginning to discover the little luxuries linked to well-being, such as Sunday trips out of town.

Huge amusement parks began to spring up in the lake district following the American model, veritable playgrounds designed to satisfy the visitors' wildest fantasies. The Consonno story started in those years, a story that speaks of enterprise, a relationship with the territory, and a tragic event that transformed the Disneyland of Brianza into a ghost town