Video of the Cinque Terre

Browsing the net I found an excellent video on our beautiful Cinque Terre, taken from http://www.natgeoadventure.it/
See what I propose…

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The festival Palmaria Island Air 17-20 July 2008

Palm Aria Festival… suggestivo il nome e ancora di più i contenuti di questo splendida manifestazione artistica che, a varie tappe, anima l’estate della Riviera Ligure.
Iniziata a Maggio a Sestri Levante con il famoso “Festival Andersen” prosegue a partire da domani 17 Luglio per 3 giorni nello splendido scenario dell’Isola Palmaria; la terza ed ultima tappa dall’11 al 14 settembre con “Aria d’Estate” a La Spezia.

Moltissimi artisti internazionali tra cui spicca il nome di Vinicio Capossela si esibiranno nei luoghi pubblici dell’Isola: strade, sentieri, intallazioni, spiagge per uno spettacolo coinvolgente e fuori dal comune.

Sono previsti trasporti in battello dalla Spezia e Portovenere, maggiori informazioni sul sito www.ariafestival.it

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Il Giro d’Italia a nuoto a Vernazza

Approderà il 21 luglio a Vernazza la  seconda tappa ligure del Giro d’Italia a nuoto UISP. Nel pomeriggio di lunedì 21 sono previste diverse manifestazioni per l’occasione.

La prima edizione di questa manifestazione “nata dall’obiettivo di sensibilizzare l’opinione pubblica a un importante tema: il valore dell’Acqua come Bene insostituibile per la vita di tutti gli individui.” [tratto da www.acquechiare.net  ] terminerà poi il 3 Settembre con l’ultima tappa Camogli – Genova dove verrà tenuto un convegno sull’attività sportiva del GIRO relativo alla grande iniziativa sull’ambiente “Il Mare che Vorrei”.

L’organizzazione logistica della tappa S. Terenzo – Vernazza è a cura di lerici nuoto master

Elenco completo delle tappe del giro d’italia a nuoto UISP 2008

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Cinque Terre Award “five sails” Legambiente and TCI

E’ was handed over today 2 July aboard the schooner Green, marine reserve in the waters of the prize “Five Sails” Cinque Terre, that for the ninth consecutive year fall in the ranking of the cleanest beaches and coasts of Italy.

80.1 points apply to the beaches of Riomaggiore Vernazza and Monterosso al Mare second overall.

Through “Blue Guide” Legambiente and Touring Club have an indication of places awarded by “Five Sails” and reporting 300 most beautiful beaches and beyond 280 coastal cleaner.

At its eighth edition, the Blue Guide has become an indispensable tool for spending the summer in the nature and the environment, result of the partnership established between Legambiente and the Italian Touring Club.

This year's guide is even richer information. E’ increased the number of sites you browse, with several new and beaches reported “told”. We then enriched the sections dedicated to the sea caves, real pearls scattered along our coasts. The section contains the synthesis of a great work along our coasts census conducted by the Ministry of Environment: Legambiente has chosen for you the most accessible and most beautiful caves, with directions to get there and visit them in total safety. And even a section on coastal lakes, sites of outstanding cultural and historical significance, Nature and landscape.

The Blue Guide is the result of investigative work done by Green Schooner Legambiente during his years at sea, but also the wealth of knowledge of the hundreds of local groups Legambiente. The assessment is not only the quality of bathing water, but take into account many other variables, starting with the quality of accommodation, by the presence of a well-preserved historic center, by offering fine food and wine, proximity to places of historical interest or natural, and so on.

Evaluations of Legambiente were finally integrated with the official data collected through the database of Italian (Ancitel), and summarized in an opinion expressed with sails (by a maximum of 5 sails to a minimum of a sail). This year, the data processing is done by the prestigious Institute of Environment Research Italy.

And along with the sails, reporting is the most beautiful beaches: corners are often known and frequented only by residents, maybe after strenuous hiking or walking along hidden trails. A “secret” reveal that in the belief that readers of the Blue Guide will enjoy these treasures in a responsible manner.

Read more:
http://www.legambiente.eu/campagne/guidaBlu/ricerca.php?anno=2008

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path 1

I'm interested in doing the trail 1 from Levanto to Portovenere in March.

I would like to know whether there’ possibility’ accommodation in or nearby Telegraph Hill.

If someone has already’ done and I can’ give some info.

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The world's largest nativity scene

Dusk, quasi ad accompagnare gli splendidi tramonti invernali delle Cinque Terre, si rinnova lo spettacolo a cui assistono numerose persone provenienti da tutta la Liguria e nord-italia insieme ai pochi turisti stranieri persenti in questo periodo. La posizione ideale per chi volesse vedere e fotografare il presepe è in Via Rollandi, il cui inizio è situato presso la chiesa di S. Lorenzo.

Curioso il fatto che uno dei più piccoli borghi del mondo ( tra l’altro inserito recentemente nella guida “I borghi più belli d’Italia” edita da SER- Roma www.borghitalia.it) ospiti il più grande presepe luminoso del mondo…un’altra chicca per le 5 Terre e Manarola in particolare!

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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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