Floating Piers to let visitors walk over Italy’s Lake Iseo

#ITALY is expecting to draw at least half a million visitors after the floating piers on #LakeIseo by the artist Christo Yavachev, open this month (June). 

The Bulgaria-born artist and his team has been assembling and anchoring almost 220,000 polyethylene floating cubes to form of a 1.8-mile walkway since November last year. The walkway will connect the mainland with two of the islands in Lake Iseo in Lombardy. Monte Isolo is one of the islands, which only uses boats as the method of communication with the mainland.

‘For the first time, for 16 days from June 18 to July 3, people will walk on the water!’ said,’ said Mr Yavachev, who has funded the venture.


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Not the End of the Pier show

HASTINGS-BORN Graham McPherson – aka Madness lead singer #Suggs – has fixed the final screw to complete the re-decking of Hastings Pier following a £15 million renovation project.

Scheduled to open to the public in late April, Madness will headline a gala opening celebration on the pier on May 21. In its heyday, the pier hosted many of the best US and British musicians, including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix.

First opened in 1872, the 890ft-long pier enjoyed many years of popularity, but the gradual decline in the British seaside in the 70's and 80's led to poor maintenance and declining visitor numbers. The pier was closed in 2008 and a fire in 2010 all but destroyed the superstructure.

Tickets for the Madness concert and the gala re-opening day celebrations are available from the Hastings Pier website.

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