rocky landscape and austere, asylum for fishermen and farmers living in whip to whip up a strip of beach in some places is increasingly thinning, naked and solemn setting of one of the most primitive of Italy ..........
These are the famous lines with which Eugenio Montale settle the five lands.
These five ancient villages lying on the coastline of the Ligurian Riviera di Levante in the province of La Spezia
All villages: Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore are beautiful and easily reachable by train.
Monterosso is very popular, being at the center of a small natural bay, but the most famous is Vernazza, characteristic for the narrow alleys and colorful houses by blacks slate portals, the marina, the beautiful bay and the tower which reminds past in the sights and dangers of Saracens from the sea.
Superb is the church of St. Margaret of Antioch was built in 1318 in style Gothic-Ligurian Antelami the Masters on an existing building, which remains the apse decorated with small arches and pilasters. It stands on a rock overlooking the sea protected by a row of rocks on the side of the creek to Monterosso. The octagonal tower, 40 meters high and is crowned by arches, ending with a dome-shaped arched.
Between 1500 and 1600 the church was extended and original medieval facade was destroyed.
Vernazza remains in my heart!
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