Liguria is the lovely land.Vincenzo Cardarelli
The burning stone, clay clean
s'avvivano of vine leaves in the sun.
is the giant olive. A spring ephemeral
belong anywhere mimosa.
Shadow and sun alternated
those funds
valleys that lie to the sea, the streets paved
going up through fields of roses,
wells and land split, along
closed farms and vineyards. In
quell'arida land on the sun strip
stones like a serpent.
Sea on certain days
is a flower garden. Reca
post on the wind.
Venus returns to the gusts of the mistral
born.
or Church of Liguria, as ships
ready to be launched! O
open to wind and wave
Ligurian cemeteries! A pink color will
sadness when the evening, like a flower
rotting, the great light
SFAC you go and die.
One day intent to show a friend from Vernazza " from outside, "we reach - starting dall'attracco the boat - to the train station. I tried to explain to the incredulous friend that this was the "little station" Vernazza inserted in the more important railway line Genoa-Pisa, but I had to convince lead from the front of the board times and show the departures and arrivals of trains. It 'very hard to see how small stations of the Cinque Terre may be involved in a more complex rail network, but this is precisely their appeal. Small stations (now host of offices and information points "Park") obtained from a tunnel and the other trains that stop in tunnels and walkways that resemble those of a subway, breathtaking views and a tunnel between each other. Due to the morphological location of the five villages that make up the Cinque Terre and the difficulty (or inability to get there) by car, the rail becomes vital for the movement of tourists and residents. The railroad Cinque Terre born around 1860 when the planned naval dockyards of La Spezia. The construction of the Arsenal break (created by Cavour and built by Domenico Chiodo) requires the construction of an infrastructure (the railroad fact) that can connect any east Liguria. The sites are open and hundreds of workers get to work often in conditions of objective difficulties. This rail needs repairs to the limits of the impossible as tunnels excavated using explosives or materials arrived by sea and sorted Mule. The work will last 14 years but the Cinque Terre and many other villages of the east coast of are now more accessible. We have to wait several more years before we have the so-called "local trains" that ply between a small station and the other, and which are so coveted for Lesser displacements mainly tourists. A real light rail station which belongs to La Spezia Centrale. Over the years the railway has undergone various alterations and shifts. If, for obvious problems of space to the Cinque Terre the railway center has remained so, in other riparian countries has been set back inwards. She points Bonassola, Levanto and - in the province of Genoa - Moneglia. These changes are clearly visible as they are being left in the old ballast on the front of the sea with their stone walls of local dark gray to green again cut the old fishing villages. These old roadbeds are now used for parking, while the old stations are full of shops, services, or public offices. Separate mention for the old disused tunnels. I had the opportunity to explore - only for a short initial section - the old unused tunnel that leads to Bonassola Framura (pictured above right), while that linking Bonassola Levanto has recently been renovated and turned into a bike path. Abandoned or recovered the old disused railway tunnels stretch values \u200b\u200bare witnesses of the past that have a special charm.  |
| wall tunnel between Riomaggiore and Framura |
