Vernazza
Cliffside fishing village and former Genoese harbor once famed for its seaworthy white wine.
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This guide to Vernazza in Cinque Terre opens with the flood of October 25, 2011, when hidden underground streams broke loose and buried the harbor square in mud, killing three villagers. It reaches back centuries earlier, to when Genoa prized this natural harbor and Vernazza's steep vineyards produced a golden wine sailors called seaworthy, said to have reached the papal table in Rome. That wine fortune eventually faded, long before the flood ever touched this square.
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