Simone Verona and the Pietrasanta Skate Plaza
Simone Verona Pietrasanta
and the Skate Pla
photos by 4skateboard.it
Here is a short interview Simone Verona about the unique marble skatepark in the World! The
interview is in English and in the original language Italian. Enjoy reading and go to Pietrasanta!!!
Who came up with an idea skatepark in Pietrasanta ?
The town of Pietrasanta wanted to make a skatepark , the budget was small and with Marco Morigi we were
planning a low cost skateplaza... then the idea of using the marble came to me , because I always see around
our areas scraps of marble with interesting shapes to skate . We thought that we can add a few pieces of
marble inside the skatepark...There was a meeting with the ARTCO company that had all those scraps with
amazing skating forms , perfect bumps and quarters . They were very happy to cooperate with us ! From
there, the enthusiasm has gone up and we decided to have all the objects with wasted marble and adapting
the skatepark to them instead of the other.
The idea became also due to the fact that Pietrasanta is world famous for the artistic working of marble and
using scraps of companies it seemed a great way to integrate the skateapark in the history and culture of
the city and do something that will be beautiful to see as well as functional
In how much time this project was completed?
As like the other skatepark projects is the result of a long project , that date was back many years ago etc
etc ..Since the municipality has decided to actually do the skate park until the opening day has passed quite
some time, something like a year ... but in reality the actual time in which we have designed, developed and
built the park was very short because the municipality had to respect the constraints and thus the stage of
practical realization has been very intense and lasted actually few months.