Italy, Florence, Fortezza da Basso, Fitfestival, aquadance lesson. The Fortezza da Basso in Florence is the name of the fortress that hosts the Fitfestival, the most important, long-awaited fitness festival in its twentieth edition. The castle-walls and the towers are like soldiers of the Folgore with ropes and rope-ladders ready for the "assault on the fort". It seems that even the showgirl Seredova has participated in the enterprise; but otherwise, "anatomical" graces being shown off aren't the main thing. Better to proceed on towards the entrance, where brochures about safe sex are distributed. Not that it's a bad thing, good heavens no, but it's like saying smoking is bad for your health in a chocolate store, seeing as the fitness festival is made out to be the anti-sex, anti-eroticism fair - a joyous war machine battling against cellulite and stretch marks; an aerobics course of autogenous training for feeling good: physically, socially and in a bathing suit.
Fitness is a large family that ranges from the martial arts to massages and is a constantly expanding world. At the Fitfestival, which candidates itself as the Italian fitness capital, you can find everything. Maybe even too much, because if you wish to combine fitness and well-being, how then do you combine an amateur soccer game with the BMX and skateboarding and other highly dangerous activities?...