SULZANO, ITALY — A Bulgarian-born environmental artist has unveiled his latest installation ‘The Floating Piers’ in Italy, that allows people to experience something akin to walking on water. <br /> <br />The work of Christo, a 3 kilometre-long floating walkway on Lake Iseo, links the town of Sulzano to Monte Isola and San Paolo islands. <br /> <br />It consists of 220,000 interlocking high-density polyethylene cubes, which are anchored to concrete structures on the lake’s bed. A yellow fabric covering the walkway changes colour from red to gold depending on the weather and light. <br /> <br />The walkway moves according to the movement of the waves as people walk on it, which gives the visitors a feeling of walking on water. <br /> <br />Christo previously worked with his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009. Their famous installations include the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris.
