The village of Manarola was founded around to the XII century from populations coming from from Volastra
( " vicus oleater" - country of the olive trees). More probable for Volastra it appears but,
the origin of the etimo from Liguria which " Viassa" (Biassa); Vappa (Viapra); Strà ecc.
Volastra of the rest, end from the antiquity, it was station of mail used from the Roman for the change of
the horses along the high coastal way front to the way Aurelia (109 a.C.). From hills soprastanti therefore groups
of peasants came down towards sea giving origin to this new coastal takeover. Manarola was feudo of i Marquises of
Carpena, passed then to the powerful getlteman Fieschi, original of Blackboard, yielded they give Bishop of Luni in 1252.
Country comes cited for before time in a document of 1266. Manarola gave i
been born them to Linibaldo Fieschi, Pope Innocenzo IV (1243-1254), the one who which scomunicò Federico
II and indisse the seventh crusade.
The country endured many incursions saracene. A castle to defense of the country and its existed inhabitants,
fact to construct from the Fieschi on the reef to peak on the sea and of which today it remains only a
bastion inglobato in a room. In the 1273 country and the castle they came attacks from genovesi galee
and puttinges to you to iron and fire. In the 1276 defeats the Fieschi, Manarola passed to the republic
of Genoa that they give then of followed the vicissitudes.
OTHER NOTIZIE XVI century: numerous pirati incursions of Barberians in all the Five Terre.
1608: the Five Lands forgiveness the function of podesteria, Manarola passes under the commanded one
of La Spezia. 1797: it falls the Republic of Genoa and it begins the period napoleonico. 1815:
the Republic of Genoa comes annexed to the Sardegna.
1874-1880: thanks to the construction of the railway line Genoa - La Spezia, the Cinque Terre exit
from their isolation giving life to a slow but progressive improvement economico. 1926 - 1928:
doubling of the railway line.
(Witnesses drawn from “Magical Five Lands”, Editori Moon)
