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Cinque Terre |
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The "Cinque Terre" include
the coastal belt of the
territory that runs from
Punta Mesco, the western
promontory of
Monterosso, to
Portovenere; it’s a strip of
coast about 15 kms. long,
between the sea and the
mountains. Behind them, there’s the Val
di Vara (Vara Valley) and, in their final
part, the Gulf of La Spezia. |
The steep profile of this territory,
sometimes overhanging on the sea, with
growings and vineyards, terraced thanks to
the famous "little dry stone walls" (built
with stones without cement), where rocks and
barren areas appear covered with heather,
broom and pines, only in a depht of 3 or 4
kms., highlights some 700-800 metres high
relieves.
The villages of the
Cinque Terre (Riomaggiore,
Manarola,
Corniglia,
Vernazza,
Monterosso),
crouch between the ridges of the Ligurian
Appennines, downgrading over the sea, and
the creeks of their spurs. It’s a strip of
land of an as enchanting as rugged nature,
where inhabitants became used to obstacles
and toil, always fighting with love for
their landscape. |
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Portofino and Gulf of Tigullio |
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The hill of
Portofino (with
his wonderfol harbour
attainable only on foot or
by boat from S. Fruttuoso)
mark a changing in the
landscape and even in the
Gulf: exceeding it, you will
find a smooth landscape with
the Gulf of Tigullio,
amazing perl of Riviera,
with his important town like
Rapallo and Santa Margherita
Ligure. |
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Lerici |
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It’s impossible to
estabilish the real
Lerici’s
time of foundation but the
study on its ancient name
“Portus Illycis” (probably
from the greek “Iliakos”:
Troyan) fed the theory of
the foundation by a group of
exiles from the War of Troy;
this theory is supported by
landscape’s beauties |
(similar to that of the
Greek coasts) and by the fact that one of
Lerici’s creek is consecrated to Venus.
The village was an important harbour for
greek and phoenician trades, but it had its
greatest links with the Etruscans, thanks to
the closeness to Luni.
Lerici was contended by the Romans to the
Ligurians for the relevant importance on
maritime routes; the Romans conquered and
used it as a trading and military stationing.
The harbour was important during the
Medieval Age,too; under the power of Luni’s
Bishop, a lot of travellers, pilgrims and
merchants arrived in
Lerici along their
journey to the north of Italy and the
central Europe, through the neuralgic knot
of Sarzana. |
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