Manarola

Year

1273

Style

Gothic

Type

landscape

Manarola is one of the five Cinque Terre harbor villages built into the rocky Ligurian coast between Levanto and La Spezia. The place name is traced by the Parco Nazionale to a dialect form referring to a large water-mill wheel, and an…

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1000-1900
Addition
Cinque Terre terraced landscape. Dry-stone sandstone retaining walls built and maintained by the community from around the year 1000 onward shape the terraced vineyard and olive landscape that frames the village.
1300-1399
Addition
Campanile Bianco. The detached square-plan Campanile Bianco served as a watch and defense tower alongside its later bell function.
1338
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San Lorenzo church. San Lorenzo was built in 1338 by the inhabitants of Manarola and Volastra;the Gothic-Ligurian church has three aisles, a baroque barrel-vaulted interior, and a rose window on the facade.
1400-1499
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Oratorio dei Disciplinati and San Rocco hospital. The Oratorio dei Disciplinati della Santissima Annunziata and the former hospital of San Rocco form the upper-village civic and religious cluster.