The people of the Rosta are a great people

The children from the Anna Frank School, during their explorations of the Rosta Nuova neighborhood, were searching for the invisible and the mysterious. What do we treasure in looking and thinking about the city?

If you’re curious and even a little adventurous, download the Rosta postcards designed by the children from the Anna Frank School, or look for them at the Rosta Library or in some of the stores on Via Wybicki, and begin your journey through this historic Reggio Emilia neighborhood.

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The neighborhood’s a place to play.  Andrea, 4 years old

It’s very nice to walk around because then you can look. Looking is important because otherwise you miss things. Filippo, 3 years old

Taking one step at a time, pausing, moving their gaze up and down and all around is how the children got to know and play with the urban perimeter around their school, with slow steps and attentive eyes.

Thus a different landscape opens up, a city made of desires, unusual places to play, talk, rest, encounter new perspectives...

One discovers a brave nature, special little roads to walk with the birds, secret passages and houses that all look the same from the outside but hold a “people” recounted through many different stories.

Thus the “symbol” of the Rosta emerges, a white cat with the red bow on his tail who guards every door with his enigmatic smile and welcomes anyone who enters to chat with “the neighbors” in Rosta.

The children’s postcards are an invitation to take time to wander and get lost in the surroundings in search of precious things. But they’re also an invitation to participate in collecting essential things and subjects and encounters in the neighborhood, in travel notes for the city written together. The children wait for postcards from the inhabitants, near or far, in order to create a new and unusual correspondence with the city.