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- A big, a huge propeller. We are not in the heart of a transatlantic liner, we are in the major gallery of European wind.

- It was created in 1928. Here, the first hydroplanes in history were tested.

- We are in Italy. Why precisely here? Because here, from where our episode of Linea Blue of today starts, the wind, the sky and the earth really melt.

- We thus start from here.

- We go out from this wind gallery where, again, as you can see it, we are testing the models of hydroplanes, a flying machine over passed by time.

- Let’s go see what it represented in the past. Come with me.

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- We are in 1906, the mayor of a small town in Ligurie, facing the sea, decided to propose tax exemption for the companies that wished to invest there.

- The town is Finale Ligure. The company, the industry that chooses to come here, is the Piaggio.

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- We talked about hydroplanes, planes that dominated the 1920s. Here you have more or less the history of the Piaggio.

- The planes you can see, not all of them really flew, but out of 10 ideas that were developed, at least 2 then surely flew.

- This plane represents the result of studies of high technology for the time, and maybe even for today.

- So what is this?

- This is P6. We can say that it gains an auction as a catapultable plane for military ships.

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- The history we want to tell you today is another history of this town, of Finale Ligure.

- And now let’s get out, let’s go to the sea, where those hydroplanes flew for the first time. And let’s discover together this shore of the Ligurie of Ponente.

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