The  Cinque Terre are situated on the eastern side of levant Riviera, borbed by Capo di Montenero to the east and punta Mesco to the West. Five tiny villages where there are traces of the presence of man which go back many centuries.
The inhabitants of this beautiful corner of the earth are continuosly trying to claim back land from the mountains in order to survive. An example of this are the characteristic tenaces gouged out from the mountains thanks of the building of thousands and thousands of meters of stone walls, built with much hard work and sacrifice. These tenaces are mostly cultivated with vines, and to a lesser extent olive groves, which up until 1950’s – 60’s were the only source of income for most of the families living there.
Produce that has made the Cinque Terre  famous are Sciacchetrà, a wine obtained by drying the best of the grapes produced, and the Cinque Terre white wine D.O.C.
The Cinque Terre are renowred for its lemons, thanks to its particular climate, whose rind is used for the production of "limoncello", a typical liquer which help digestion. Thanks to the extraordinary effects of nature and to what man has managed to mountain and preserve, the Cinque Terre were declared a National Park in 1999 and world humanity patrimony. The National Park has created turist information centers in each village (see national park web site). Access to the Cinque Terre is guaranteed using trains on the La Spezia – Genova line (the easiest way of getting there); from  S.P. n° 370 which reaches the Cinque Terre from La Spezia in about half an hours; By the soc. Navigazione golfo dei Poeti boats which in the high season (from March to November) connect La Spezia and Portovenere to the Cinque Terre. The use of car is not encouraged as parking spaces are rare.
All the village in the Cinque Terre are connected to one another by a web of paths, the blue path is the one most used by tourist as it is the most direct and near to the sea. Correct footwear is advised for all footpaths.

Manarola is built on both banks of the river Groppo which runs under the main street shows part of the historical centre to the vistor, the first true inhabited nucleus, castled on a spot of rock that directly emerges from the sea and that it leans out with its houses on a small enchanting dock. Entirely surrounded from cultivated hills to vineyard, it offers a environmert to the tourist for a vacation in total relax.
Not to be missed: visit to the parish church of S. Lorenzo built in ligurean gothic style in 1338. The harbour enchanting angle from which part e suggestive walk drawn in the rock that connects to an attractive inlet where is possible to make batting in calm. True sweet is the bright nativity scene, that comes in the period of the Christmas festivities, by now from innumerable years, turned on to the dusk on the hill that dominates Manarola. Invented and built by an inhabitant, with material of discart it is composed from about dozzers  of figures that are positioned on the terraces of the wineyards, and at the ligthinig  of the thousands of light bulbs they effect an unique show to the world.