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Portovenere’s Natural Park offers a unique landscape with its high coasts, its caves and the vegetation which characterizes the environment with different shades of colour according to the season. The element which combines everything is the sea. Sometimes it is so calm and clear that it reflects the rocks and the flight of the seagulls as it was a mirror. But it can be also rough and furious when it smashes against the rock where it is possible to see the San Pietro’ s Church. The Park is surrounded by the archipelago, three Islands: Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto. However, the Park means not only Nature, since here history dates back to prehistorical times with the "Grotta dei Colombi" up to the recent past when Marconi experimented his studies in front of the “Borgo” (Village). The protection of the most precious area of Eastern Liguria, entirely situated in the Municipality of Portovenere, was decided in 1985, in 1995, Parco Naturale Regionale delle Cinque Terre was established, while Parco Naturale Regionale dei Promontori e delle Isole di Levante was established in December 1999. In 2001 Regione Liguria has acknowledged the peculiarity of the protected area. UNESCO has acknowledged it as World Heritage through the establishment of Parco Naturale Regionale di Portovenere. |
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La Spezia's province, it counts 1757 inhabitants. Is the most western village of Cinque Terre, in a basin faced on a creek, east of Mesco Point, closed by a many terraced hills declining towards the sea, where are tilled olive, lemon threes and mostly grapes. Composed of two unit facing parts of sandy coastline: Monterosso side keeps the structure and the colours of the proper ancient fishermen’s’ s village. Fegina’ s centre, which has been built around the rail station, has instead a residential tourism. To visit San Giovanni Battista and San Francesco Churches. |
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La Spezia's province, it counts 1214 inhabitants. The tiny sqaure is faced on a small marina; the church overlooks the sea upon a cliff. Steep stairs, narrow arcade alley and lodges upon the village: fitted in like a wedge in the harsh coast. Santa Maria d’Antiochia is the parish ligurian gothic style church, erected in 1318, in the rock in front of the sea. The church from the high tower, on the presbytery overlooks la crouched square in front of the marina, surrounded by Meddle-age houses and by a colonnade building. |
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High on the sea 193 m, on the edge of a rocky promontory, at the border of a cultivated wine yard bay; the fourteenth century parish San Pietro's Church, re-casts in baroque age, keeps gothic door and rose-window (1351). |
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It’s reachable, in 30 minutes walk through “via dell’Amore” (“Love way”), which it winds along the overhanging coast on the sea. It is like a lump of high and narrow houses, painted in bright colours, which overlooks a tiny marina. |
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The village is located 56 metres high on the sea level, is in La Spezia’ s province, it counts 2101 inhabitants. High and crowed together houses, very colourful; tortuous little streets and tiny square; closed among the mountain and the sea, confined in the narrow little valley of the torrent (today covered): the village is one of the Cinque Terre. In high and panoramic position there is the Castle's ruins (XV-XVI centuries). |
