[8][9] Other attractions include a driving school, a suspended monorail, interactive spaces dedicated to science education,[2][9] a parrot aviary,[10][11] hot air balloons, a log flume,[12] and a Pinocchio-themed train ride.

[1][4] After visiting Swissminiatur [de], a miniature park near Lugano, Switzerland,[4][6] in 1968,[1] Rambaldi was inspired to create an Italian counterpart;[1][2] he documented his visit on film and began working on the park in his home garage with Sergio Fabbri, his brother-in-law and a modelmaker, and Paolo, his son and a student at an institute of surveyors.

[4] As the project grew, the workshop moved to a warehouse of Rambaldi's elder brother, Anselmo, and reached sixteen craftsmen.

[2][4] It was the fourth theme park to open in Italy after Perugia's Città della Domenica [it], Naples' Edenlandia [it] (1965), and Fiabilandia [it] (1966), also in Rimini.

[21] At the time of its inauguration, it numbered between 49 and 61 models,[1][4] many of monuments from Emilia-Romagna,[1] over an outdoor area of 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft).

[25] The park was renovated between 2018 and 2021,[13][20] at a cost of €3 million,[17][20] featuring new attractions Esperimenta, Pinocchio and Pappamondo,[11] and a new entrance with fountains and a statue of a child that is 10 metres (33 ft) tall.

[13][20] Among its guests were Stefano Bonaccini, President of Emilia-Romagna, senators Marco Croatti [it] and Sergio Romagnoli, poet Beppe Costa, and media personalities Lia Celi [it] and Kleidi Kadiu.

[7] Among notable models, the park features a 1:5 reproduction of 119 buildings in Venice, with a surface area of 6,600 square metres (71,000 sq ft).

[2] Buttons animate some scenes, such as a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida at the Verona Arena, a fire in Porto Marghera, and the opening of the Ponte Girevole swingbridge.

[29] Particularly on special evenings,[34] the park hosts live shows by street artists, acrobats, dancers, singers, and musicians.

[41] From the end of the 1970s,[42] the photographer Luigi Ghirri began visiting the park frequently, which he believed resonated with his work on the relationship between fiction and reality.