The suspension bridge of the Ferriere is a pedestrian walkway that connects the two sides of the Lima stream between Mammiano Basso and Popiglio in the municipality of San Marcello Piteglio.
It is made with structures that rest on four steel cables kept in tension; it measures 227 meters long, 36 meters high on the riverbed and 80 centimeters wide.
In 1990 it was included in the Guinness Book of Records which included it as “the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the world”. Since 2006, the record has been held by the Kokonoe Yume Suspension Bridge in Japan.
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