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Monesteroli…hidden paradise in Cinque Terre

02 03 12'

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What is Monesteroli? it is a nowhere…an hidden pearl along Cinque Terre coastline, just sea, rocks and plants.

It can only be reached by the sea or from the coastal road, taking hard, but scenic, hiking trails.

The Cinque Terre Coastline

The Cinque Terre Coastline
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Let’s follow Luca Natale, once comunication manager of Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre, take the Italian TV showman Patrizio Roversi to the discovery of this unique place on earth, where his grandfather had a farmer shack and canteen!

Monesteroli by Velisti per Caso

No gas or electricity supply for the Robinson Crusoe inhabitants of this Eden on earth. Two small solar panels provide energy for just the essential. Then, it’s life.

The sea it’s life. Monesteroli sea is life, a sea that can only be reached going down a perilous, hazardous trail…that has to be walked back for reaching home after a plunge into the clear waters ot the Mediterranean sea.

But these people seem not to feel the effort!

This is life for them, there’s no other way of living. Only Monesteroli Life!

 

Only the most corageus hikers are invited here…

More info on Cinque Terre Hiking Trails and situation at related blog articles under Trails Category

http://www.cinqueterreblogspot.com/blog/2012/cinque-terre-hiking-trails-work-in-progress/

http://www.cinqueterreblogspot.com/blog/2011/cinque-terre-amazing-hiking-trails/

http://www.cinqueterreblogspot.com/blog/2012/planning-a-2012-holiday-in-cinque-terre-a-useful-guide/

 

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Wedding Venue & Luxury Villa with Pool in Portovenere

02 02 12'

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A newly added exclusive property to Cinque Terre Riviera portfolio. On a magic, sunny Janauary morning we did our survey of this incredibly beautiful villa in Portovenere. The owner decided to open its door to us and our guests this year and we now present it to the world.

Villa Argia, a family mansion with 2 annex and amazing swimming pool, 4 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms and vast garden area plus fanyastic sea view. It’s just steps from beaches and promenade, right in Portovenre village, along its beautiful promenade.

The historical villa keeps its ancient charm even though offers modern comforts and an incredible sea water pool right a few steps from the crystal clear waters of the Poets’ Gulf.

This elegant villa can be a fantastic venue for couples who want to have a distiguished party on the Mediterranean shores of Portovenere.

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Cinque Terre, Holiday Rentals, Italian lifestyle, Portovenere, Weddings

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Vernazza in Progress…Vernazza is Magic!

01 25 12'

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Vernazza is in progress to walk fast along reconstruction road and reach the goal of reopening businesses in Spring.

A few days ago the Pharmacy in Via Roma has been reopened, so to give first help to inhabitants that, little by little, will repopulate the village.

Lively Vernazza soon back to its colours

A store, Restaurant Belforte, reopened too, on January 23rd.

To know more on what is really happening in Vernazza we suggest you reading  Save Vernazza article at following link that gives updates on “The State of The Village” and lists all running future projects, whose completion is necessary to bring the place to its old splendour and functionality.

Save Vernazza Blog

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Cinque Terre, Flood 2011, How to move, Vernazza

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Cinque Terre Hiking Trails…OPEN! Great Job!

01 24 12'

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For all Cinque Terre Hiking Lovers here an useful update on Cinque Terre Trails net.

We are happy to announce that most of the hiking trails net is functioning right now and just waiting to welcome FAN HIKERS from any part of the world!

La Spezia Province, along with CAI La Spezia, is working hard on put back into safety Cinque Terre and Val Di Vara trails

Here, at following link, the updated situation of Cinque Terre Trails; you will see that much of the repeiring job has been done! GREAT JOB! Cinque Terre needs its hiking trails and hiking fans back!

Cinque Terre Hiking Trails Updated

Val di Vara Hiking trails Updated

Here a precious English translation of the Cinque Terre hiking trails we did to help our hiking friends better understand the trail situation.

As you can see the net of trails is huge in our area and paths already open allow even the most trained to enjoy the holiday in Cinque Terre  at  its best not losing a bit of the beauty and pleasure of walking through still savage passages and amazing natural settings.

 

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Portovenere - Telegraph
Safe up to Pitone.
walkable
Closing order revoked
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Telegraph - Cigoletta
Cleaning problems in some places. At some point the path is very narrow due to erosion.
Walkable with slight difficulty up to the Cigolettta
Cleaning of the path. Improvement of the ground

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Holiday Rentals, How to move, Trails

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10 ways to propose your love in Cinque Terre

01 21 12'

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Proposal Time!

Will you be able to surprise your in love?

Will you show you’re really the right one?

You know the words but haven’t the right place?

 

We’re here to help…a sometime crazy and always witty staff will put on Archimedes’ hat and will create, after your taste and suggestions, the most fanciful, original, romantic and memorable wedding proposal ever, always framed by our unique setting…Cinque Terre Riviera & Poets’ Gulf.

In the land that made so many poets and writers fall in love (and who’s more demanding than an artist on earth?)  your in love can’t but say “yes” to your whispered question “Will you marry me?”

BECAUSE IT’S SO EASY TO SAY YES IN PORTOVENERE, as following slideshow tell us, as in MONTEROSSO, VERNAZZA, MANAROLA…

Will You Marry Me in PV?

With our company us on site, right where romance is at its best, it will easy for any lover, from every corner of the world, to plan an amazing and unique proposal even if you are far, far away. Your friends will all be jealous!

Here 10 fantastic ways to tell your lover you’re the right one FOR LIFE…and remember we are here to help you, locally, to see that everything goes smooth and plain.

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Cinque Terre, Portovenere, Wedding Proposal, Weddings

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VERNAZZA IS BACK…LET’S GO BACK TO VERNAZZA!

01 16 12'

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Finally, a GOOD NEWS…rooms and apartments in VERNAZZA can be rented starting from May 1st, 2012.

Rebuilding works are progressing and safety from landslides will be hopefully soon achieved!

So, we can say VERNAZZA IS BACK…LET’S GO BACK TO VERNAZZA…

The same happens for Monterosso. Today, Mayor Mr. Betta declared that the village is now SAFE, being all landlsides blocked stopped.

We can say, as well, MONTEROSSO IS BACK…LET’S GO BACK TO MONTEROSSO

HIKING TRAILS WILL BE OPEN, TOO, IN SPRING TIME

For reservations visit www.cinqueterreriviera.com.

For help, suggestions, enquiries confidently mail to info@cinqueterreriviera.com

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Flood 2011, Holiday Rentals, Vernazza

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1 Morning in Portovenere: Colours and Shades…

01 15 12'

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Welcome to Portovenere…the sign says…

and it is really a nice welcome the one we get when we reach the colourful “Palazzata”, the line of famous, lined, coloured tower houses, symbol of the village.

I decided to introduce readers to this fishermen Ligurian village starting exactly from the most distinctive trait of the place: its bright colours and shades, a universe of hues and lights, that feed our minds and our hearts with forgotten feelings and sensations. Follow me as “one morning” companion…

La Palazzata – some of these properties are now for rental

and let Portovenere brigh colours fill our eyes. Colours and shades will take our hands while walking through the village. Read the rest of this entry »

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Planning a 2012 Holiday in Cinque Terre? A Useful Guide

01 07 12'

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This article is dedicated to all those who are planning or would like to plan a 2012 holiday in Cinque Terre.

To all those who think October 25th, 2011 banned this wonderful land to travellers we can say that the info is wrong: this area is so vast and it can offer so many opportunities for getting the best memories ever from this unique place!

And travellers are so important NOW for the area more than ever.

From mails that daily reach us and from what we read on Rick Steve’s Graffiti Wall we understand that some travellers are concerned or confused about the situtation in the area and afraid in reserving a 2012 holiday.

We want to reassure everybody that Cinque Terre Riviera  and close by Poets’ Gulf are just here to welcome all travelers who want to gift themselves and their loved ones a marvellous and unforgettable holiday. So down here you can find a useful guide with updates, hints and suggestions for planning  a fantastic 2012 Cinque Terre holiday. 

If you are thinking about your future holiday, think that Cinque Terre is a land for travellers and not just tourists…and here you can make the difference! 

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It looks like we’re still in the 60s…

01 04 12'

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Stazione di Monterosso…Monterosso al Mare train station…shooting in black & white makes me feel like we’re still in the 60s and time did not pass over these shores.

When I was a child I remember that for my family, as for many other living in La Spezia, it was very common to spend a Sunday afternoon in Monterosso. We used to reach the village by train since getting here by car would have been too long, tiring and risky: quite and adventure on all those turns and bends with a small FIAT 600.

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Monterosso, Season hints

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Cinque Terre – Surfers Riviera in Italy

01 03 12'

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Levanto, such a beautiful village either in Summer or in Winter. Bathers paradise in the hot season and fantastic surfing destination for the waves lovers even in the colder (always mild) season! Levanto became in recent times one of the most wanted surfing destination in northern Italy .

This old fishing village with its sheltered, deep-water bay  produces some of the biggest waves in continental Italy and is surfable when everywhere else (but Lerici) is blown-out.

Its wide bay allows you to create surfable waves mostly when Jugo and Mistral blow, but, sometimes, it is ossible surfing the waves even with strong Scirocco winds.

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A Fantastic 2012 to all Cinque Terre Lovers!

12 30 11'

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Buon Anno (Happy New Year) wrote these Monterosso boys and girls on the beach and, to exorcize the recent flood and its damages, they wrote their wishes to the world on the beach using the sand bags given from Protezione Civile as barrier to incoming waters…Buon Anno a Tutti Voi!

Buon Anno to all the people who struggled and dedicated every single moment of their recent life to help, clean, work in Monterosso and Vernazza and bring lttle by little these villages to life again. Read the rest of this entry »

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Flood 2011, Season hints

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Food, Good Food is here..

12 30 11'

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From our last Farm In Town in La Spezia on November 27th the very best of food for our tables.

It was a fantastic opportunity to meet again our producers all gathered in our market square. Their produce, anyway, is not hard to be found when in La Spezia. They are usually sold on the stalls of this lively market everyday from Monday to Saturday and bought by La Spezia families and many restaurant owners that are proud to serve local, 0 km food on their tables.

All those who have the chance to visit La Spezia or Cinque Terre and Poet’s Gulf area cannot miss the chance to visit our lively fantastic food market right in the heart of our town. Only there one can find fantastic black cabbage, to be served just fresh, finely cut and added to your salad or cooked and served in thousand, fantastic recipes.

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Italian lifestyle, Season hints, Where to eat

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An ordinary, bright, fantastic winter morning in Cinque Terre!

12 27 11'

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The sky is bright and the sun starts shining early in the morning, in a way that only happens in cold, December days; about 2-3° C outside…the best day for picking a camera and go out for a photographic trip!

I leave my house without knowing where to go…Portovenere, Litoranea, Parodi? I decide to take the Litoranea road…the costal, panoramic road that takes to Cinque Terre. Read the rest of this entry »

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How to move, Season hints, Trails

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Where to accommodate wedding party guests in Portovenere

12 21 11'

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Portovenere, UNESCO World Heritage Site, located in the literary Poets’ Gulf, between La Spezia and Cinque Terre,   is charming and attractive. One of the most beutiful villages in the world, they say. More romantic than any other place in the world and, for this reason, chosen by hundreds of couples every year as wedding destination.

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The Poets' Gulf, Weddings

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Ideas for an Italian Wedding Bouquet…fresh, bright, always elegant and stylish!

12 15 11'

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Here from our flower artists and decorator bright, fresh and elegant ideas for fantastic wedding bouquets!

Wether we hazard an unusual flower combination or we stick to old traditions, the result is always great and fantastic.

Bride pictures will get the most with these creations!

Prices for these creations can vary upon kind of flowers and season. You can find on the market several florists that can style even nice bouquet at cheap prices, but always bride should always give preference to top professional florists with a long lasting experience. Beauty and freshness of bouquet and table decorations has to last all day long, especially if it’s summer time, so only good and expert hands can give bride’s bouquet the magic that keeps it fresh until it’s time to throw it to bride-to-be girlfriends!

Here an explosion of yellow roses and sunflowers…the Italian Riviera nature bursts from the hands of our bride…

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