On contrary 2012 will be the renaissance of Vernazza where, since the very first minute after the flood, nobody spent one tear more than necessary and everyone is working hard to return back our wounded towns into the beauty that made them beloved worldwide. In these past 2 months an enormous amount of debrees and mud have been carried away, the town is starting to looks a bit more normal..A wedding has been celebrated on Dec. 10th; the doors of the first floors, 100% of them wiped out in one minute by the wild river, have been replaced with temporary plywood doors and they will be ALL painted by local artists on Jan 6th 2012 (see also http://vernazzafutura.blogspot.com/2012/01/un-arcobaleno-di-solidarieta-per.html).  Signs of strong wish of return to normality.
But will it be enough?
The huge amount of money needed combined with the logistic conditions and environmental difficulties make the job extremely hard..and the clock is running fast toward the beginning of the touristic season.

The Municipality has’nt taken an official position yet, we actually think it’s not possible to have one and -of course- we don’t want to gamble with predictions in matters that involve people’s lifestyle and livelihood, we just want to aks a question in name of all the small business of the other towns.

The strenght of  the “CINQUE TERRE” brand, has unexpectedly turned into weakness. The very first message “Flood in the 5 Terre, the Cinque Terre don’t exist anymore” left the sign. Too few (even among tour operators and travel agents) are aware that only Vernazza (completely) and Monterosso (seriously but partially) have been hitted. The flood is indeed affecting every business of the 5 Terre and of the entire province, so we do believe it’s a fair question..Will Vernazza be ready for tourists in 2012?

The answer is likely NO. That’s my personal opinion and perception. Assuming that a part of the town itself could be accessible, the problem would be to conciliate tourism and construction sites, to supply a decent level of services and, more than all, to have secured the upper part of the town and the surrounding hills, almost destroyed by more than 100 landlsides.

That said..we want to engage a bit more the public with this POLL (that will remain active until the end of February) and try to understand what the scenario will be in case…

2012: The 5 terre after the flood -POLL- is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

Instagr.am è un’app gratuita che consente di creare effetti speciali degni di un fotografo professionista con un solo click e di condividere la foto in real time.

Abbiamo effettuato la ricerca su Twitter raccogliendo le foto più interessanti scattate dagli utenti alle Cinque Terre

Curiosità: leggendo le faq del sito, gli sviluppatori ci raccontano le origini del nome che deriva da un mix fra “instant” (le istantanee polaroid che tutti ricordiamo con malinconia, uniche macchine che davano all’epoca, la possibilità oggi data per scontata, di vedere subito le foto scattate) e “telegram” (il telegramma, che arriva al destinatario in un tempo brevissimo anche questo oggi superato dalle comunicazioni real time delle email o dei social network).

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Le Cinque Terre su Instagr.am: una photo-filter app per Iphone is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

• http://www.ricksteves.com/plan/destinations/italy/cinqueterre.htm
• http://www.ricksteves.com/plan/destinations/italy/cinqueterre_fiatfree.htm
• http://www.ricksteves.com/tms/article.cfm?id=161&extras=false

And from the pages of our blog we already wished to tribute the right credit to Mr. Steves: http://www.cinqueterre.com/blog/rick-steves-acros-the-cinque-terre

Unfortunately our impression (you can feel it reading this last linked article) of a bad administration of the National Park of 5 Terre and of the municipality of Riomaggiore were true and on Sept. 28th 2010 the entire management was arrested,  accused of several serious crimes (corruption, threats, conspiracy to fraud against the state,..).
What had appeared for a decade a shining model of sustainable progress and tourism,  a modern vision of  public management, a genial creation of prosperity showed its miserable failure. The truth, cleverly concealed behind a fake glitter of gold,  was finally clear to everybody.

What to do now?

-) Cinque Terre will survive without Bonanini; they were here well before him and they will remain well after him.
-) We need a better government (not an hard stuff if you’ve in mind Mr. Berlusconi ahahahah I start laughing before you do..) and fortunately we have a new one in Riomaggiore. Now we need everybody to help her in the difficul re-construction.
-) WE NEED ALL OF YOU FOLKS.. we’ll do our best to give people the best hospitality we can.
-) We need Mr. Rick Steves to still spend his beautiful words for us, if he still believe that we deserve them…and it seems so..

Quoting Rick Steves from his FB note: http://www.facebook.com/notes/rick-steves/the-cinque-terre-national-parkin-disarray/10150183680359702

The park was run by its president, Franco Bonanini, a powerful man — nicknamed “The Pharaoh” for his grandiose visions. In a personal visit a couple years ago, he conned me into thinking he really was a visionary committed to the region and its precious park.

But Bonanini created a medieval-style system of favorites and enemies, with the help of Riomaggiore’s mayor, and others. Starting and stopping construction projects, funneling money here and there, and extorting people to preserve their power, this cabal derailed the park vision. In 2011 they were removed from power, but the damage had been done. The good ideas of the park (info offices, baggage deposits, mountain-bike opportunities, little museums, elevators for the infirm, and even maintenance of the trails) have been scuttled.

Today, Bonanini is out of power, and the park’s run by a man from the central government whose vision for a fix, it seems, is to run the park as a business. But a park is a park, not a business.

What does all this mean to the visitor? Not much. The Cinque Terre is still my favorite stretch of Mediterranean coastline. The people are endearing. The food, culture, and nature are uniquely enjoyable. I just thrill at the thought of people working together for a grand and noble vision that helps a community’s economy by wisely treating a park as a park, rather than making a park a business. And so far, the Cinque Terre has failed in that regard.

Rick Steves and the “disarray” of 5 Terre 2010-2011 is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

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San Valentino alle Cinque Terre..
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Per voi un week-end romantico nelle magnifiche Cinque Terre.

La nostra offerta :

- pernottamento in camera matrimoniale in uno dei paesi delle Cinque Terre, in strutture selazionate
- Cena a lume di candela in un ristorante tipico delle Cinque Terre con menù a base di specialità di mare.
Il pernottamento può essere esteso a seconda delle Vostre necessità.
Prezzo per coppia Euro 150,00.
Tutti i dettagli dell’offerta
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San Valentino alle Cinque Terre is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

Video serie: Rick Steves in 5 Terre is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

As usual he points the attention on few basic and useful infos for tourists givin an exact overview of what one can expect visiting the Cinque Terre

Another Rick Steves’ video about the Cinque Terre is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

«Ancora una volta le Cinque Terre si confermano ai vertici delle nostre classifiche – ha dichiarato Sebastiano Venneri, vicepresidente e responsabile mare di Legambiente. – Il Parco ha consolidato un equilibrio virtuoso tra sviluppo economico legato alle tipicità locali e prodotti della terra e tutela ambientale. La progressiva eliminazione delle barriere architettoniche attraverso ascensori e rampe, rende accessibile alle persone diversamente abili tutto il percorso di Via dell’Amore che collega con una suggestiva passeggiata i borghi marinari di Riomaggiore e Manarola. Continuo il rilancio delle produzioni tipiche locali, come i vini, la linea alimentare o la nuova gamma di ecobiocosmesi, attraverso un sistema di filiera a Km 0, che si basa sull’utilizzo di materie prime locali.»

Ecco il video della consegna del premio avvenuta a Portovenere il 12 Agosto 2010

(tratto da http://press.parconazionale5terre.it/news_dett.asp?id_prodotto=2343&id_lingue=1)

Giunta alla sua decima edizione, la Guida Blu – diventata uno strumento indispensabile per trascorrere l’estate all’insegna della natura e dell’ambiente – è una vera e propria classifica, presentata ogni anno ad inizio stagione balneare, sulla qualità ambientale delle località turistiche. Le valutazioni, sintetizzate nell’assegnazione delle ormai famose vele (da un massimo di cinque ad un minimo di una), non riguardano solo la qualità delle acque di balneazione ma prendono in considerazione anche la gestione delle risorse idriche, l’istituzione di aree pedonalizzate, la tutela dei centri storici, la qualità delle strutture ricettive e la presenza di un’offerta enogastronomica di pregio. Tutti parametri insomma che concorrono alla realizzazione di uno sviluppo sostenibile accrescendo una richiesta turistica di qualità.

Le Cinque Vele di Legambiente alle 5 Terre is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

The Cinque Terre on CNN – Video is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

 

Percorso degli stand gastronomici a Monterosso (cliccate per ingrandire la mappa)

 

La sagra dei limoni di Monterosso al Mare is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

Infine un paio di avvertenze:

• Un link per informazioni su come raggiungere le Cinque Terre in Auto>> e…
• Non cercate di gareggiare con il pilota di questo video…!

[L'immagine visibile in homepage è tratta da http://www.elogioallavespa.it/viaggio1.html]

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Sulle strade delle Cinque Terre is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

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HD video of the Cinque Terre is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

Overview of the Cinque Terre – Video is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

Video: visita delle Cinque Terre dall’elicottero is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

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Video: Riomaggiore 5 Terre (english) is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

Video: Manarola 5 Terre (english) is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

Dennis has been president of the Hawaii Geographic Society since 1986 and led his first two Europe tours in 1987. Since then he has formed his own travel company and conducted over 35 tours throughout Europe, as well as 9 tours in the Americas, doing most of the lecturing and coordinating the logistics while shooting video every step of the way. you can find a full article written while shooting this video on http://starbulletin.com/2006/05/07/travel/story01.html

Video: Vernazza Cinque Terre (english) is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

This videos are quite dated but still very interesting; they’ve been produced by Dennis Callan.

Dennis has been president of the Hawaii Geographic Society since 1986 and led his first two Europe tours in 1987. Since then he has formed his own travel company and conducted over 35 tours throughout Europe, as well as 9 tours in the Americas, doing most of the lecturing and coordinating the logistics while shooting video every step of the way.  you can find a full article written while shooting this video on

http://starbulletin.com/2006/05/07/travel/story01.html

Video: Monterosso Cinque Terre (english) is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

Cinque Terre Video part 2 (english) is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog

Cinque Terre Video part 1 (english) is a post from: √ Cinque Terre Blog