Manarola viewpoint
Cliffside overlook above a fishing harbor, facing the terraced hillside lit each winter by a handmade nativity scene.
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This guide to the Manarola viewpoint in Cinque Terre begins in 1961, when Mario Andreoli climbed the hillside across the harbor to grant his dying father one request: fix a fallen cross and wire it to glow after dark. It follows how that small gesture grew across the decades, as Andreoli, working the railways by day, welded scrap iron and salvaged wire into shepherds, angels, sheep and kings by night. When he retired in the 1980s, he gave the project the rest of his life, and his family still keeps the lights burning every December, on the terraces facing this overlook.
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