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History – The Middle Ages (II)

…The matrix of transfers of the people of Vara along the coast is linked to two historical events are common throughout western Europe: population growth and the liberation of the Mediterranean Saracen threat to the Arab-. The coast also had a better climate, best the cultivation of certain products such as the screw el'ulivo. The Cinque Terre are not born, but then as seaside villages as agricultural villages. But to exercise the first farming settlers were forced to completely clean the area with the terracing of the slopes of the mountains. Thus began the characterization of the landscape of Cinque Terre with forms similar to modern ones: extensive terraces planted with vines and olive trees, woods of chestnut trees, forest timber. Commune was thus the origin of the villages was a common lineage Lunigiana, as the Val di Vara was the western part of the territory that had as its capital Luni. After a while’ time that the inhabitants of the Val di Vara had moved on the coast took familiar with marine elements as transport by sea, in the past, was in an absolute cheaper than any other means. The wine produced for sale, in fact, had to be exported far and everything needed to live was to be purchased outside the country.

L'esportazione wine was absolutely necessary because the production was aimed primarily at selling the product and not for meet their needs of life. For this, from the sale of wine only inhabitants of the Cinque Terre were the means to buy food that they could not draw from their campaigns. Become men of the sea meant to be, as well as sailors in the merchant marine, also fishermen and pirates. From that moment the people divided their time between work in the countryside and going to sea, according to their needs and of the alternation of the seasons. This fact is supported by the fact that in 1170 a galley of Vernazza, along with some other villages of the eastern shore, he ran the war on behalf of the Genoese against Pisa. In 1182, also, even men of Vernazza (probably at the time the largest and most populous country) exercised, in peacetime, the war ran on its own, against merchant ships bound for Genoa. The oldest document dates back to memories of the Cinque Terre 1056. E’ the act of March of that year, drawn up to Monterosso, with which the Marquis “Guido Alberto was” donated to the monasteries of Santa Maria and San Venerio, immovable property situated in the islands of Palmaria and Tino Tinetto and Portovenere. This document draws from the certainty of the existence of Monterosso at that time. Vernazza for the oldest document that you remember the name of 1139. One can imagine that the Cinque Terre, before the twelfth century, are nothing but a meeting of poor hovels.

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