Thousands flock to creation for chance to walk on water

Thousands of people stepped out onto the latest work by renowned artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in northern Italy on Saturday, seizing their chance to "walk on water".

The most eager fans of Christo, as he is universally known, spent the night camped out to be the first to step onto a walkway of 200,000 floating cubes covered in orange fabric floating atop Lake Iseo.

They create a 3 km-long runway that connects the village of Sulzano to the small island of Monte Isola on the lake.