[....] Access to the Floating Piers is free of charge, and interest in the piece has been so high that in order to control overcrowding, local authorities had to stop visitors from continuing their journey towards the lake, effectively leaving over 3,000 people stranded at the Brescia train station.

Codacons claims that the costs related to evacuating the stranded tourists, cleaning up after tens of thousands of visitors, and enforcing health and safety measures have made the installation too costly to maintain, to the point that they claim one should now raise the question of whether the ambitious project should have been authorized in the first place......Continue Reading

Top image: Visitor numbers to Christo's Floating Piers (2016) overwhelmed local authorities. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images.

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