Many, too many people on Manerba's Isola dei Conigli on the Garda Lake, since last summer a peninsula that can be reached on foot, across the isthmus that has become a footbridge due to drought and low lake levels. The fact in recent weeks has triggered an unprecedented pilgrimage, bringing thousands of people to the site on Sunday, and hundreds on Monday as well.

The Municipality of Manerba is forced to take cover: the neighboring streets, already packed with cars, have been closed to transit (both vehicular and pedestrian), and in view of the probable record influx for next weekend as well (weather permitting), the hypothesis of placing "gates" on the beach-the only access road-is being reasoned about, so as to quota arrivals on the island and limit the damage.

The glimpse of the endless line of walkers has even made people think of The Floating Piers (Christo's installation on Lake Iseo). It is nothing new that people walk to the island when the lake is low: all natives have done it at least once in their lives. But there is no memory of a lake being so low, for so long: it has been since last summer that people have been coming to the island on foot, never for so long. The numbers unfortunately speak for themselves: even on yesterday's day the Garda level was at 43 cm above hydrometric zero, on the same day a year ago we were at 107 cm (with all the problems of last summer), in 2021 it was 126 cm, as well as in 2020.