Ferry Dock
Boat ramp and ticket kiosk serving passenger ferries along a harborless fishing cove.
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This guide to the ferry dock in Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, starts with a village that has no natural harbor, where fishermen once hauled wooden gozzo boats straight onto the stone quay, and traces the income built on anchovies, sardines, and the steep-terraced vineyards behind them that produced Sciacchetra wine. It follows the collapse of the local catch through the middle of the last century, with some accounts putting the drop near seventy percent. Stand at the ticket window and consider how the same stone ramp still moves people along this coast, just not the way it once did.
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