Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge, Liguria

The footbridge, both cycle and pedestrian, connects the Municipalities of Ventimiglia and Camporosso al Mare located at the sides of the Torrente Nervia and on the edge of the Ligurian Sea in a unique naturalistic and landscape context.
With its development of about 120 meters and a width varying from 3 to 5.5 meters, it is the most important point of the new Pelagos Cycle Route (about 12 km long).
It is also a spot, a public space, a widening, an elongated and deformed square (similar to those in the Ligurian historical centers), where you can stop and observe the surrounding landscape: the mountain and marine landscape of Italy’s last valley before France; the scenery of the Valle Nervia with its mountains of about 2,000 meters, and its outlet in the Ligurian Sea; the landscape of the naturalistic Oasis of the Nervia torrent, with the 160 listed botanical species and 140 species of birds that continue to live in an uncontaminated natural habitat.

What makes this project one-of-a-kind?
The boardwalk on the Nervia stream represents the only exclusively pedestrian and cycling bridge that crosses the most sensitive part of the naturalistic Oasis of the Nervia stream, connecting the two municipalities that face both sides of the stream.
The footbridge draws its own reasons both from the traditional architecture of the agricultural bridges that lie along the valley, made entirely in steel and wood, and from urban bridges in small towns, representing a sort of narrow and elongated public space characterized by irregular shapes. It is therefore a cycling bridge that is located in the middle of a very important tourist cycling route for Liguria.
One of the aspects that made the new bridge well-known internationally is its ability to integrate sensibly into the landscape in which it is set, while denouncing its innovative architecture and technology.