The monumental stairs of the Cinque Terre
on the eastern coast of Liguria, between Riomaggiore and Portovenere, there are forgotten villages, landscapes and unknown routes lost. The abandonment of these lands by the natives, no longer inclined to the hard farm life requires that this landscape has led to a rapid deterioration of all those works that characterize human, prehistoric times, this particular environment.
The terraces, which once covered the mountain slopes of the coast almost to sea level, are now crumbling irretrievably or be swallowed up by vegetation. Among these ancient stone walls, where the strong Ligurian low vineyards and olive trees have grown since time immemorial, winding paths, just as ancient, linking the villages with fields and the "cellar". These are but small stone buildings near the fields where they worked the grapes directly without having to carry up in the village, several kilometers away.
There are real villages made of these wineries: Monesteroli, lighten, Persian, Lemmen, Fossola and Sunsets.
These sites, located further down the country, close to sea level, can be reached today as a thousand years ago, via steep stairs monuments built by man with huge and heavy square stones, carried on his shoulder and laid by hand on steep coast, teetering on the abyss.
has recently been suggested that the first application of these scales dating back to prehistoric times, it was kind of megalith.
Until a few decades ago the coastal wineries were popular, and especially during the harvest, the old stairs and terraces of the Cinque Terre is alive with people (young and old) that tramandatigli repeating the actions of their fathers, brought forward an old tradition.
In recent years, however, there was a drastic abandonment of local agriculture, resulting in damage to natural and scenic coast. The terraces are disappearing quickly and the megalithic same scales, without proper maintenance, are inexorably eroding and crumbling into the sea.
Park of Cinque Terre is on alert since 2005 for this reason and are trying to promote local agriculture and the return is looking for funds to repair the ancient terraces and staircases.
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| Steps towards Monesteroli |
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| nearly vertical stairway |
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| The vineyards of the Cinque Terre |
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