Hanging with 3 balloons, each 6 meters in diameter

Cardboard bridge over the river Rome..A tribute to Michelangelo

The bridge is 18 meters high and allows a symbolic crossing for a few days.

Reuters

Michelangelo dreamed of a bridge over the Tiber River in Rome linking the gardens of Villa Farneseina with the Farnese Palace, a magnificent Renaissance building that currently houses the French Embassy. French artist Olivier Grossett from Marseille is fulfilling this dream for him, but... with cardboard or cardboard.

The 18-meter-high bridge, suspended by three balloons of six meters in diameter, each inflated with helium, was inaugurated in the presence of the Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, and the French Ambassador, Christian Masset.

The bridge makes it possible to cross the river symbolically for a few days and connect two Roman-era landmarks, one of which is the Farnese Palace on the left bank, and the second, Villa Farnesena on the right bank.

As of July 8, dozens of small hands began assembling the various parts of the bridge, which will be dismantled on July 18 and its components recycled.

This workshop was a participatory work, as 120 people were recruited for it.

France had bought the palace in 1911. This was an insult to Mussolini, who restored it, but left the right to use it to France by signing a lease agreement in 1936 for a period of 99 years, for a symbolic amount of one Italian lira annually, in exchange for the costly maintenance of this building.

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