July 31, 2012
by Anna Merulla /
Walking through Vernazza, 9 months after the day of its flood, for me was touching. The videos of the torrential rain and the massive flooding happened on October 2011 which killed three residents, damaging the town and terrorizing people are alive in my mind.
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June 6, 2012
by Anna Merulla /
The Italian Riviera has nearly 200 miles of coastline. It climbs from Ventimiglia in the west, sweeps around Genoa, and finishes just past the Cinque Terre, five famous villages with unique vineyards overlooking the Mediterranean sea. The Ligurian coast is very easy to reach if you are coming from Milan and it is just about
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January 28, 2011
by Anna Merulla /
Via dell’Amore, the Cinque Terre romantic path dedicated to lovers, is famous all over the world. Couples love to walk on this pathway and, as a ritual, sit on the lover’s chair (the sculpture with a kissing couple) and put locks on the various gates and railings.
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January 14, 2011
by Anna Merulla /
Why you should visit and fall in love with the Italian Riviera? Here following are my 30 reasons and, which are yours? 1)The walking paths under the olive trees between the Cinque Terre: the best way to discover, enjoy and understand the beauty of this Five Villages is to visit them on foot. The panoramas
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November 30, 2010
by Anna Merulla /
Colours are important in my life. I think everything we see in our life has some colors and each one of them play a different role. They give us energy, peace, happiness, sadness. And on The Italian Riviera, the region where I live, color has a primary part on the identity of the ligurian territory.
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