The rush to Christos new project The Floating Piers is enormous even for a few days after the opening. For about 3,000 people, the journey to the floating pontoons of the installation artist in the northern Italian Iseo is initially stayed in the main station of the nearby city of Brescia to the end, the news agency Ansa reported.
The region is now overcrowded, therefore, people should initially not continue in the direction of the lake. Volunteers of the civil defense took care of the people, it said.
The project was opened last Saturday. On the first day had 55,000 people entering the webs. The whole weekend had to train and ferry terminals are repeatedly interrupted. The bad weather did the rest: The organizers asked visitors to postpone their visit because security was not granted on the lands by strong wind and heavy rain
. the 81-year-old Christo and his team have moved three kilometers from the webs site Sulzano on the island of Monte Isola and from there to the smaller island of San Paolo. They are composed of 220,000 floating cubes and covered with a bright yellow fabric – and to convey the feeling of walking on water.
The Floating Piers are free to access and open around the clock. Until July 3, they shall be accessible to visitors. It is estimated that over 500,000 tourists from around the world.
Together with his 2009 late wife Jeanne-Claude Christo is through his monumental works of art – including the concealment of the Berlin Reichstag in 1995 and the packaged Pont Neuf in Paris in 1985 – become world famous
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