Italy’s floating piers

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A month has passed since the solemn moment in amazing floating piers were open to Lake Iseo – The Floating Piers, which local authorities and the organizers of this fantastic installation will attract at least million tourists a month. Really wanting to see it yet one wonder of the world turned out to be twice as much.

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Floating piers were invented by the famous American artist and a sculptor, Bulgarian by birth, Hristo Yavachev, which is known, for example, for its amazing gilded gates Central Park in New York. His new open-air art project air, which is performed by the forces of the American and Bulgarian team experts, amazes not only with its originality, but also a fantastic value of seventeen million US dollars, which Christ laid out of his pocket.

Moreover, he provided the Italians and guests of this sunny country use your brainchild for free. However the piers themselves in just a month they brought decent income to the local treasury thanks to the huge influx of tourists. It is important to mention such detail that the cost of housing in Lake Iseo over time construction of floating piers (they were built twenty-two months) tripled.

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The Floating Piers are unique ten-meter width waterways made of special material, which changes color depending on the weather, but most importantly – imitates walking on water. The piers connect the town of Sulzano with two ribbons island of the lake, people can walk on them around the clock, and their at this time, stewards and lifeboats accompany.

First month of operation of this unique US-Italian “cat-beach” as described reporters, turned Lake Iseo into a kind of Italian Mecca. The Floating Piers actually mimic water walking or, by at least the impression is that the person is on his back huge whale …

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