Thousands of people began yesterday to wander over the floating walkways installed by the artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff to invite the public to walk on the water of Lake Iseo in northern Italy.
the spectacular installation “Floating Piers,” the octogenarian American artist, was opened yesterday to the public on lake Iseo, in the region of Lombardy, northern Italy.
Many people visited yesterday morning, after the official opening, the three kilometers of floating platforms bright yellow linking the town of Sulzano, lakeshore, with the island of Monte Isola and then to the San Paolo, smaller.
Many waited impatiently before the opening and throughout the day many visitors arrived to Sulzano. Until July 3 is expected to half a million people to experience the project, which cost 15 million euros.
The Bulgarian artist and his team screwed in recent months 220,000 cubes floating plastic after sheathed polyamide bright yellow.
visitors should enjoy this work “with all senses” and watch as if dealing with a “boulevard “amid water invites walking, better if barefoot, Christo told DPA.
the special thing about this project is that the” floating jetties “of 16 meters wide , do not swing like a boat, but mimic the movement of the waves, with the idea that people feel really walking on water. Divers joined the catwalks on the floor of the lake with anchors of 190 tons.
Most hotels in the region are exhausted weeks.
Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009, became famous for its artistic installations that used to be covered with fabric buildings or public areas of large dimensions, such as the Reichstag building in Berlin in 1995 or the Pont Neuf in Paris ten years earlier.
the last project was carried out in Italy in 1974, when they covered part of the Aurelian Wall of Rome.
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