Port of Vernazza
Natural stone harbor where fishermen still haul boats up nightly, a centuries-old anchovy base.
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This guide to the Port of Vernazza in Cinque Terre follows nine hundred years of fishermen hauling boats onto this bare stone quay, and the after-dark ritual of luring anchovies with lamplight that made the fish this village's staple, salted through winter and served on nearly every table. It then turns to the twenty-fifth of October, two thousand eleven, when a storm dropped hours' worth of rain onto the town and sent the stream above the harbor pouring down as mud. Listen for what that single day cost this stretch of coast, standing where the boats still rest each night.
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