Cinque Terre
Also known as The Five Lands
1200
Vernacular
landscape
Cinque Terre is a stretch of the eastern Ligurian coast where five small villages sit on rocky spurs and short valleys above the Tyrrhenian Sea, linked since later medieval centuries by a continuous fabric of dry-stone agricultural…
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Timeline
- 1870
The Genoa to La Spezia railway reached the coast and ended the villages' dependence on sea links.
- 1999
Cinque Terre National Park took over trail and landscape management for the five villages and their terraces.
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Image credits
- Hermann David Salomon Corrodi · Public domain
- Josef Stoitzner · Public domain
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