Campiglia Tramonti

This guide to Campiglia Tramonti, a clifftop stone hamlet in Cinque Terre, opens with an altarpiece painted by an artist known only as Carpenino, one mystery inside a village built entirely from staircases and grey stone. It follows the workshop that still teaches teenagers to carve that same stone by hand, and the church dedicated to Saint Catherine, traced back to thirteen twenty-six and reworked across four centuries, including a marble relief and altar added generations apart by unrecorded hands. Step back outside afterward and face west across the Gulf of the Poets, toward the sunsets that give the village its name.