Parking full
Parking full! Pictures shot in Riomaggiore, La Spezia e Portovenere. Click each picture to enlarge
Step after step
Portovenere, Riomaggiore, Corniglia, Vernazza, Manarola … slow step after slow step
Pictures shot in Cinque Terre. Click each picture to enlarge
The calm after the storm
The winter sea, a bowl of contrasts. Neither light breeze, nor moderated gale: storm and hurricane I call you, winter sea. And calm.
Pictures shot in Riomaggiore, Vernazza and Porto Venere. Click each picture to enlarge
Colors fall from the sky
Some news channel recently included Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy among the places to avoid because of mass tourism. They are probably right: I never managed booking an accommodation in Cinque Terre during spring, summer or autumn. What about winter, then? Enjoy the colors of Cinque Terre, painted out of the sky on each of the five villages.
Pictures shot in Vernazza and Porto Venere (the sixth “Cinque Terre”). Click each picture to enlarge
Walking on the house of Hephaestus, Vulcano, Aeolian islands
Climb up the steep paths of Vulcano island, home of Hephaestus and his servants, the Cyclops!
First pass through the black hashes of his forge, then take a rest on the iron-rich stones of the crest.
Here on the top boric acid, ammonium chloride and sulfur will poison your lungs and blind your sight!
Here on the top fumaroles will steam your feet and the stink will afflict your nose.
Follow the guide through the deadly steam and complete the round on the crater ring,
And before the sun will set, have a last look to the mighty Cratere della Fossa, where the blacksmith of Gods once forged the chariot of Sun and the arrows of Apollo …
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