Sentiero Azzurro
Cliffside footpath of hand-stacked terrace walls, rebuilt again and again after landslides and flood.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Sentiero Azzurro in Cinque Terre, the stretch between Vernazza and Corniglia, starts with a question: why some dry stone terrace walls along the path look freshly cut while others are blackened with a century of rain. It traces the walls back to farmers who terraced this cliff for vineyards without a drop of mortar, and to the storm of October 25, 2011, which dropped roughly a third of a year's rain in one afternoon and sent the hillside sliding. The village of Vernazza sits below this stretch of path, buried under mud that same afternoon.
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