{"id":2036,"date":"2020-06-09T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitcinqueterre.eu\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2020-06-18T15:04:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:04:58","slug":"cinque-terre-10-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitcinqueterre.eu\/en\/2020\/06\/09\/cinque-terre-10-parole\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cinque Terre in 10 keywords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Cinque Terre are five villages on the eastern Ligurian Riviera, nestled between the cliff and the sea, in a landscape shaped by its inhabitants over the centuries, which still survives today thanks to a perfect yet precarious balance between man and nature. Small treasure chests where history, nature, and art come together in dizziness of colors and shades, attracting and enchanting tourists from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n

Five villages: Riomaggiore<\/strong><\/a>, Manarola<\/strong><\/a>, Corniglia<\/strong><\/a>, Vernazza<\/a>,<\/strong> and Monterosso<\/strong><\/a>; each with its own history, its own traditions, and also with a distinct dialectal speech, but united by some characteristics.<\/p>\n\n

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1. Sea<\/h2>\n\n

The inhabitants of the Cinque Terre have always worked the land and from it have drawn sustenance and economic development since the first settlements, but the sea is an essential element of the landscape. It touches the villages, reflects its colors, influences its moods based on its motion, and has always guaranteed economic and cultural exchanges.<\/p>\n\n

2. Dry stone walls<\/h2>\n\n

Over 6,000 kilometers of dry stone walls that support and shape our landscape. Essential walls allowing winemaking and other traditional agriculture activities and making the Cinque Terre what they are. However, they are also particularly fragile, require constant maintenance and special manpower and when abandoned are at risk of landslide and above all, we risk losing our identity. For this reason, we invite you to visit the Stone Walls for Life<\/a><\/strong> website, a vital project in this region.<\/p>\n\n

3. Terracing<\/h2>\n\n

The technique, sweat, effort, and inheritance are the spectacular terraces that draw the postcard landscapes of Cinque Terre. A work that began in the XVII century and risked getting lost with progress, but whose importance and essentiality is luckily quite clear now. Terracing doesn’t exist without dry stone walls and we don’t exist without them.<\/p>\n\n

4. Vineyard<\/h2>\n\n

Bosco, Albarola, Vermentino, and a lot of passion and determination to maintain tradition and landscape. The vineyard, together with olive and lemon trees, is the mother of local agriculture and has guaranteed the development and sustenance of Cinque Terre over the centuries. Today called heroic agriculture, viticulture is still something authentic and closely linked to manual labor.<\/p>\n\n