Manarola Marina
Rocky natural cove where fishing boats rest on a stone ramp between sheer cliffs.
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This guide to Manarola Marina in Cinque Terre centers on the eighth of July, fifteen forty-five, when the corsair fleet of Dragut, a raider feared nearly as much as Barbarossa, had already struck Monterosso and Corniglia up the coast. Word raced along the cliffs faster than any galley could sail, and boats from Riomaggiore rowed hard around the point toward this narrow inlet, still visible today, its stone ramp barely wide enough for one boat to turn.
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