"The Cinque Terre are small and fragile, unique and in danger: everybody's support is needed to keep them as they are, as we like them!"

Why are they in danger? The answer is again in the same speech:

"The territory of the Cinque Terre is the result of the millennial labour of farmers who transformed the steep slopes into fertile terraces for the the cultivation of the wine. There are over eight million cubic metres, seven thousand linear kilometres of dry-stone walls (without any cementing agent). An immense mosaic, an immensurable heritage, the result of an amirable collective civilisation. Today all of this is at great risk, because of the abandonment of cultivation that has plummeted from one thousand four hundred hectares to today's less than a hundred hectars. Where the presence and work of man has eased off, hydro-geological instability is almost immediate: entire hillsides have already been rendered useless ahd they hang threateningly over the villages underneath."

The National Park was born in 1999; the address of its headquarter is:

Riomaggiore, Via T. Signorini 118, 19017;
phone: +39 0187 760000-920113; fax +39 0187 920866

e-mail: info@parconazionale5terre.it

Following a table of the information/services offices of the park: