5 terre hotels and apartments.
Apartments and hotels for your vacation in 5 terre italy.
5 terre is an area located in Liguria where sea and land come together to form a unique and charming landscape.
From La Spezia to Levanto 5 terre consists in eighteen miles of rocky coast filled with bays, beaches and deep, topped by a chain of mountains that run parallel to the coast.
The Terraces, typical ligurian walls made by stones, are planted with vines and olive trees cultivated by the locals with love and passion.
The work of man in the 5 terre, over the centuries, has shaped the area without altering the delicate ecological balance, but by enhancing the beauty, as the need for the terraced slopes, due to the special agricultural technique designed to exploit the land as possible in high places gradient sloping towards the sea, making 5 terre one of the most beautiful and fascinating landscapes of Italy..
Monterosso, Manarola, Riomaggiore, Corniglia and Vernazza are the name of the five coastal villages located in the area of 5 terre.
All the villages of 5 terre have small hotels or inns and there are many bed and breakfasts throughout the area, many with beautiful views of the Mediterranean and the surrounding hills.
In 1999 has been established the National Park of 5 terre. Its territory extends from the area of Tramonti to the town of Levanto.
The park has the particularity of being the only one in Italy aimed at protection of a man-made environment: one of the objectives of the natural park infact, is the protection of the terraces and the dry stone walls that support them.
In front of the coastal line of the 5 terre is located the Area Marina Protetta of 5 terre: the reserve is designed to protect flora and fauna on the conformation of the rocky coast are already at low depths, special uncommon in the rest of the Mediterranean see.
In 1997, upon application by the Province of La Spezia, the area of 5 Terre, together with Porto Venere and the islands Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto, were included among the UNESCO World Heritage of humanity.
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