The Five Lands comprise wrap it coastal of the territory that goes from Punta Mesco, the cape to the West of Monterosso,
until Portovenere; a lempo of coast, between the sea and the montuoso crinale along approximately 15 kilometers.
To their shoulders the Val di Vara finds itself and in the part they, the Gulf of La Spezia finishes.
The profile irto and scosceso of its comprensorio, at times strapiombante on the sea, with alternate
mantle of picked to you of terrazzate lives, by means of walls to dry, emerging of cliffs and superficial
uncultivated covered of erica, ginestre and pine, in the single depth of three or four kilometers,
it evidences reliefs that can even catch up the 700 and the 800 meters of height. Between these degrading
montuose crests on the sea of the last ones propaggini of from Liguria Appennino, between the insenature
of its contrafforti, they are, in the time rannicchiati the countries of Five Lands: Riomaggiore, Manarola, C
orniglia, Vernazza, Monterosso.
Draft of a strip of earth and cliff of a sour wonderful nature as well as how much and strict one, in which,
from millenia, has insediato a man accustomed to the difficulties and the hard work,
always in fight, one challenge of love with the just ambient one. A name Five Lands appears
for before the time in the Desptio Orae Ligusticae of the historian breaks Giacomo Bracelli
who therefore wrote in XV the century: “Five Lands Rise on the reef, nearly to egual distance between they that they are:
Monterosso, Vulnezia, called hour grossly Vernazza, Cornelia, Manarola and Riomaggiore (...)
thing that in truth ago wonder to see mounts therefore erti and scoscesi, than the birds even
find it hard to trasvolarli, barren petrosi and from rassomigliare rather to those of the ivy
and the screw. From here vien outside that wine that we prepare for the caterings of the king… “.
Perhaps in I embrace it of I fresco only, between earth, sky and sea, these places simultaneously
render us witnesses of the real and physical sacrifice of the man and of
its spirituality. The Manifest and raw beauty of this set apart world, appear to
us which expressive metaphor of a man attempt to the humble ones and patients gestures
of the daily life, to the search of the scent of the sapore of the product of its hard work.
