Modena, 21 April 2024 – Equipped areas for the outdoor fitnessfields from football and five-a-side football, volleyball and basketball, a wall forclimbingone skate park also suitable for BMX, ping pong tablesa golf course tennis and one for her bowls.
I am 57 sports areas in Modena freely accessible, located in parks and scattered throughout the neighborhood green areas, which can now also be found in the interactive online map on the site www.comune.modena.it/argomenti/sport: starting from one aerial view of the citythe map is navigable and allows you to search by type of practice or by address, also providing a photo for each structure.
The free-access equipped areas respond to the growing need for spaces for unstructured sports practice, with the dual aim of promoting a healthy lifestyle and active and to create social spaces and aggregation.
They are currently in Modena ten fitness areas11 football and five-a-side football pitches, nine volleyball courts and the same number for basketball, the Le Gobbe skate park in via Pignedoli, a small climbing wall in the Torrazzi park, six skating rinks, nine ping pong tables, a tennis court in via Stelvio and one for bowls located in the XXII Aprile park where there are also various other sports facilities.
Furthermore, to support free sports practice, it is possible to use the services changing rooms and showers at the Dogali and Pergolesi municipal swimming pools (with an entry cost of 1 and a half euros for the locker room and 40 cents for showers and hairdryer).
The number of free access sports areas has increased in recent years in response to various requests coming especially from the youth world as emerged, for example, from the participatory path dedicated to young people of foreign origin from Must a Lab which recommended that the municipal administration map the areas and free sports activities and promote them with advertising campaigns, with the collaboration of sports promotion bodies, schools, federations and sports associations.
The tendency to practice free sporting activities has also been confirmed recently search “Sport4young” during which over 1,300 young people were interviewed: the 38 percent said he practices sport independently in the gym or outdoors and 37 percent use apps and devices for trainingbut only half of the young people interviewed know about the city’s fitness areas and just 11 percent use them regularly.
The interventions carried out also respond to an agenda approved by the city council which invited the development of equipped and free green and sports areas.
