Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre
Cliffside national park stitched together by ancient dry-stone terraces and coastal hiking trails.
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This guide to the Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre traces roughly a thousand years of dry stone terrace walls, built by hand without mortar by generations of anonymous vineyard farmers along Italy's Ligurian coast. It notes that the park's stonework adds up to more raw stone than the Great Wall of China, with no single architect ever credited. Winemaker Riccardo Fino is one of the few still rebuilding collapsing sections today, calling it a stubborn, almost hopeless kind of love.
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