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Designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano in 1992 as part of the celebrations marking the five hundredth anniversary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus, the Bigo is a striking glass-and-steel panoramic lift on the harbour of Genoa, raising visitors forty metres above the water for a sweeping view across the old port and the city beyond. The name and form recall the bigo, the heavy derrick once used to load and unload sailing ships on the dockside, a piece of working maritime equipment th...