{"id":1202,"date":"2018-10-01T18:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T16:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruthellengruber.com\/blog\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2018-10-01T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:05:09","slug":"visiting-wild-west-theme-parks-in-cz-and-pl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruthellengruber.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/visiting-wild-west-theme-parks-in-cz-and-pl\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Wild West theme parks in CZ and PL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Me at the Western park outside Boskovice, CZ<\/p><\/div>\n

(This is a crosspost from my Sauerkraut Cowboys blog<\/a>…)<\/p>\n

I managed to get to two Wild West theme parks this summer — “Twin Pigs”<\/a> in Poland, and the Western Park (once called Wild West City<\/a>) outside Boskovice in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’ve visited a number of wild west theme parks in Europe over the years — they are key elements in the Imaginary Wild West. Real Imaginary spaces that have grown out of dreams, passions, stereotypes, and yearnings — but also help create them.<\/p>\n

This was my first visit to Twin Pigs — but the latest of several to Boskovice.<\/p>\n

The Boskovice park was founded in 1994 as a private initiative by a local man, Lubo<\/p>\n

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