A view of The Floating Piers on Lake Iseo in northern Italy Photograph: Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images
People queue to walk The Floating Piers Photograph: Filippo Venezia/EPA
200,000 floating cubes create a three-kilometre runway connecting the village of Sulzano to the small island of Monte Isola on Lake Iseo Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images
A view taken from the installation by Bulgarian-born artist Christo Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
100,000 square metres of shimmering yellow fabric wrap a floating dock Photograph: Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images
The Floating Piers on Lake Iseo, northern Italy Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
A couple sit with an umbrella on the monumental installation Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images
An aerial view of the installation Photograph: Filippo Venezia/AP
The Floating Piers will stay on the lake for 16 days Photograph: Filippo Venezia/AP
