Italian Commuters Find a Moment of Peace on a Cable-Guided Ferry Sketched by Leonardo Da Vinci
The 500-year-old reaction ferry now carries commuters again after a bridge closure increased traffic, with volunteer ferrymen keeping the service running.
- The ferry glides across Italy's Adda River, offering harried commuters five minutes of serenity as an alternate route during a nearby bridge closure.
- Renaissance genius Leonardo designed this reaction ferry 500 years ago, and it nearly disappeared in 2023 until Imbersago Mayor Fabio Vergani obtained a ferryman's license and assembled a volunteer team to save it.
- Guided by a cable and powered by river currents, the vessel operates daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with costs ranging from about $1.75 for pedestrians to around $4 for cars.
- Gianpaolo Graffagnino, who lives in Villa, now bikes to work using the ferry as a convenient shortcut across the Adda River.
- Immortalized in a drawing preserved in London's Windsor Castle, this reaction ferry is the last of its kind along the Adda River and continues connecting populations on both banks.
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Italian commuters find a moment of peace on a cable-guided ferry sketched by Leonardo da Vinci
Dubbed "Leonardo's Ferry," a cable-guided vessel offers commuters a peaceful five-minute ride across northern Italy's Adda River.
In northern Italy, an emergency solution has become a return to tradition: after the closure of a bridge, a ferry, the principle of which was captured by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries ago, has started transporting people on the Adda River again. The volunteer ferrymen are not only relieving traffic, but also commemorating a remarkable piece of history.
The ferry glides easily along the guide rope from one bank of the northern Italian river Addy to the other, where it is driven by the current. On it, travelers can enjoy not only five minutes of calm on an alternative route at a time when the closure of a nearby bridge caused traffic jams, but also a touch of history. The mechanism of this ferry five centuries ago was captured by the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci in a drawing, which is no…
ROME — A ferry glides gently along a cable from one bank of the Adda River in northern Italy to the other, propelled by the current. Passengers can enjoy not only five minutes of peace on an alternative route at a time when the closure of a nearby bridge has caused traffic jams, but also a touch of history. The mechanism of the ferry was immortalized five centuries ago by Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci in a drawing that is now in the royal…
The ferry slips from one bank to the other of the Adda River, in northern Italy, guided by a cable and dragged by the currents, and offers the exhausted travelers five minutes of serenity and an alternative route now that the closing of a bridge has caused traffic jams. Known as the “Ferry [...] The Italian entrance enjoy minutes of peace traveling on a ferry designed by Leonardo da Vinci was first published in Information Focus.
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