Garbatella Orienteering

In the "Lotti Popolari della Garbatella", this nice and interesting public housing project build in the 1930's during the Fascist Era, on Sunday Nov 2, morning hours, there will be a Orienteering event, an outdoor competitive sport involving land navigation using map and compass.

The map cost is one Euro. You can purchase the map and walk about and try to locate the white-and-red flags ("lanterna", "control") marked on the map with a small red circle.

To actually participate, I believe one must be a member of FISO (Federazione Italiana Sport Orientamento), and they don't actually allow ad-hoc registrations for people that aren't members of FISO. My understanding is membership with FISO (at around 70 Euro/year covers participants with insurance from accidents) and that is why they don't allow non-members to participate. For this event, there will be a large number of school children, also non-members of FISO, but for them, they are pre-registered and are already covered by their own insurance and doctor's note saying that "si attesta che il partecipante e' idoneo all'attivita' della corsa di orientamento".

The map is really good. Worth going to get it and walk around the neighborhood. Besides, no tourist map of Rome has the Garbatella included in their tour books, so this is a great chance to see this neighborhood. Plus, you wouldn't feel to nosy, because the local residents will be already be disturbed with all the commotion of 400 kids running around in their interior courtyard, with white sheets and other laundry hanging on laundry lines and flapping on the wind.

Last year's event

Pictures of last year's event

To participate you need to pay 7 Euro for membership to FISO. Here is the explanation:
da non tesserati, per motivi legali di assicurazione, non ci
è consentito far partecipare alla gara (leggi: considerare
ai fini della classifica) non tesserati alla FISO.
l'unica via per i non tesserati è l'acquisto della carta e
la libera conduzione del percorso oppure presentare in
segreteria di gara un certificato di sana e robusta
costituzione valido, procedere al tesseramento (vista la sua
scadenza il 30 novembre invece dei 15€ previsti scendiamo a
10€ che includono però già i 3€ di iscrizione alla gara,
quindi di fatto sono 7 per il solo tesseramento).