“I have walked the path of love for a long time and I have seen the sky get up there, down there where joins the sea. When it’s cloudless it looks like glass, neither high nor low: it’s there, above, without secrets, without shadows, it’s not even scary.” The collective of Italian Good People! which recounts Italian excellences as works of art he has dedicated to Love way these beautiful words.
Finally the ‘road’ that pedestrians travel overhanging on the sea between Riomaggiore and Manarolatwo of the wonderful villages of Five lands in Eastern Liguria, it stands for reopen permanently: since 2012, apart from a few very limited periods, the route has been closed due to works essential for the safety of walkers.
The arrival of the path in Manarola
The official announcement came from president of the Region, Giovanni Toti, during the Bit: “The UNESCO Heritage trail will reopen in July and will be an additional driving force for a territory that saw a significant increase in foreign tourism in 2023, while Italian tourism has never been lacking.” An increasingly receptive and lively Liguria. Undoubtedly the showcase of the Via dell’Amore will be a further reason to tourism and landscape development: giving each other a kiss overlooking the sea will be safer and more romantic.
The route is approx a kilometre and is well integrated into the Cinque Terre Natural Park. There landslide of 2012 has been completely repaired and the route can be resumed in both directions. A kilometer of aesthetic beauty and dreams that pair very well with the Museum Mile in New York or the Magnificent in Chicago or the Royal in Edinburgh: those are routes that run alongside museums and historic buildings, this Ligurian is earth and stones that praise nature , to the dry stone wallsto the terraces of heroic agricultural cultures such as vineyards and greenery wild shrubs. And down, about thirty meters from a steep cliff, the blue of the sea crossed not only by tourist ferries and yachts but by fishermen’s boats chasing them anchovies from Monterossothe tastiest of all.
You must take care of the heroic terraced vineyards in the Cinque Terre
The Via dell’Amore, paid to support the Cinque Terre Park, is only a stretch of a route that unites all the villages of the coast (Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, Monterosso), the famous Blue Path, sometimes steep and with sections for the more expert; even higher, with a 500 meter difference in altitude, it proceeds the Alta Via of the Cinque Terre that unites Portovenere in Levantothe two municipalities that border, to the east and west, the territory of the five villages.
Trekking in the Cinque Terre Natural Park
The characteristic of the Via dell’Amore – which was born as we know it in the 1930s – is precisely that of knowing how to transmit beauty and romance and to constitute a trait d’union between these wonderful realities that are a part of the Eastern Ligurian Riviera, exploiting what is their main characteristic: being land of sea and hills at the same time, mixing in an alchemy the blue of the sea, the green of the bold cultivations and the brown of the earth. The man and his heart they are the real driving force behind this path that must absolutely be followed.
