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the souls of travelers from all<br />

over the world. The colored<br />

houses of the ancient village still<br />

hold each other by the hand,<br />

clinging together in a common<br />

destiny. An image so loved the<br />

world over, that Tripadvisor – the<br />

world’s greatest virtual<br />

community of travelers, with over<br />

75 million ratings on hotels,<br />

restaurants, and other attractions<br />

– has been greeting guests and<br />

employees at the entrance to its<br />

General Headquarters at the<br />

Technology Park in Newton,<br />

Massachusetts with a huge<br />

photograph of Manarola.<br />

In the meantime, Vernazza,<br />

dominated by its ancient Genoese<br />

watchtower, has reopened to<br />

tourism. But it has been reborn<br />

“green”: a new Vernazza that uses<br />

renewable energy to reduce<br />

carbon dioxide emissions, with<br />

longer term plans to totally<br />

eliminate waste.<br />

In the last year and a half, I have<br />

gone back often. Each time I see<br />

relentless day by day progress. I<br />

hear little complaining [the<br />

Genoese are famous for their<br />

“mugugno”] but lots of work.<br />

Almost all of the trail network<br />

has been restored, with special<br />

care taken to ensure that the<br />

overwhelming beauty and<br />

biodiversity of the National Park<br />

of the Cinque Terre can be<br />

properly admired. As the dynamic<br />

Mayor of Vernazza, Vincenzo<br />

Resasco, keeps saying, “We are<br />

more beautiful than ever,” and it’s<br />

true. More beautiful and more<br />

sustainable. So much and such<br />

important investment has been<br />

made for the village to be reborn.<br />

Methane gas has reached the<br />

houses, and studies to develop<br />

new forms of mobility and the<br />

use of alternative energy are<br />

underway. Rethinking the urban<br />

project is Pritzker Prize-winning<br />

architect, Richard Rogers – the<br />

great friend and partner of native<br />

son and fellow Pritzker Prizewinning<br />

architect, Renzo Piano –<br />

who plans to use only local and<br />

natural materials such as stone<br />

and wood.<br />

Uno scatto del fotografo Luca<br />

Zennaro, una tra le immagini<br />

simbolo dell'alluvione delle<br />

Cinque Terre. Sotto, Richard<br />

George Rogers<br />

A snapshot by photographer,<br />

Luca Zennaro, which became one<br />

of the symbolic images of the<br />

flood in the Cinque Terre. Below,<br />

Richard Rogers<br />

avvistamento genovese ha<br />

riaperto al turismo e sta<br />

rinascendo green: una Vernazza<br />

con energia rinnovabile,<br />

riduzione Co2 e più a lunga<br />

scadenza rifiuti zero. Nell’ultimo<br />

anno e mezzo ci sono tornata<br />

spesso: ogni volta piccoli<br />

inesorabili progressi, giorno<br />

dopo giorno. Pochi mugugni e<br />

tanto lavoro, quasi del tutto a<br />

posto la rete di sentieri, dove<br />

vale la pena di faticare per<br />

ammirare la prepotente bellezza<br />

e le biodiversità del Parco<br />

Nazionale delle Cinque Terre.<br />

«Saranno più belle di prima» ha<br />

But the Cinque Terre will respect<br />

nature even more than before.<br />

After the tragedy, to an archaic<br />

and deep rooted respect for<br />

nature in its power and its glory<br />

was added a stubborn desire to<br />

not give in. This is the key to<br />

understanding this little slice of<br />

<strong>Liguria</strong>, where old people speak<br />

two or three foreign languages<br />

because they have spent their<br />

lives on the great oceanliners to<br />

escape the poverty that afflicts<br />

this land. You must look first at<br />

the people to then see the little<br />

villages with different eyes. To<br />

understand their battle with<br />

capricious nature. Lives that have<br />

always been difficult. Human will<br />

took them to the crest of the<br />

mountains, where pride and<br />

fatigue carved out thousands of<br />

terraces, held up by stone walls,<br />

to magically produce tiny pieces<br />

of land. There they planted the<br />

olive groves, and the vines to<br />

make their excellent D.O.C. wines.<br />

Here peasant heroes have bent<br />

backs and hardened hands,<br />

tenacious over centuries. And<br />

today their tenacity has made<br />

possible, in just a few months, the<br />

return to normality for these<br />

villages scourged by the flood.<br />

*The author of the article, a true<br />

fan of the Cinque Terre, organized<br />

in 2011 a lottery to gather funds<br />

for the non-profit organization,<br />

Onlus Vernazza Futura (Vernazza<br />

of the Future).<br />

Photo Ansa Zennaro<br />

sempre detto Vincenzo Resasco,<br />

vulcanico sindaco di Vernazza, e<br />

così è. Più belle e più sostenibili.<br />

Tanti e importanti gli<br />

investimenti già fatti per la<br />

rinascita del borgo. Nelle case è<br />

arrivato il metano, è allo studio<br />

lo sviluppo di nuove forme di<br />

mobilità e l’uso di energie<br />

alternative, e a ripensare il<br />

progetto urbano ci ha pensato<br />

l’architetto vincitore del Pritzker<br />

Prize-winning Richard Rogers,<br />

grande amico e partner di<br />

Renzo Piano, che per la nuova<br />

Vernazza utilizzerà solo<br />

materiali locali e naturali come<br />

legno e pietra.<br />

Ma le Cinque Terre saranno<br />

anche più solidali di prima.<br />

Dalla tragedia sono scaturiti un<br />

arcaico e profondo rispetto<br />

della natura e insieme una<br />

caparbia voglia di non<br />

arrendersi. Ecco la chiave per<br />

capire questo spicchio di<br />

<strong>Liguria</strong>, dove gli anziani parlano<br />

due o tre lingue straniere<br />

perché hanno passato la vita<br />

imbarcati sui grandi<br />

transatlantici per sfidare la<br />

miseria che affliggeva queste<br />

terre. Prima vale guardare alla<br />

gente per poi vedere i piccoli<br />

borghi con occhi diversi. E<br />

capire la storia di una natura<br />

difficile, che sale verticale fin<br />

sui crinali dei monti, cui<br />

l’orgoglio e la fatica millenari di<br />

rudi contadini hanno rubato la<br />

terra. Un’opera ciclopica di<br />

migliaia di chilometri di muretti<br />

a secco, terrazze e fasce, dove<br />

hanno piantato ulivi ma<br />

soprattutto viti, che danno<br />

ottimi vini doc. Qui i<br />

protagonisti hanno schiene<br />

curve e mani segnate dal lavoro.<br />

Ancora oggi quella stessa<br />

tenacia ha reso possibile, in<br />

pochi mesi, il ritorno alla<br />

normalità nei borghi flagellati<br />

dall’ alluvione.<br />

*L’autrice dell’articolo nel 2011<br />

ha organizzato una lotteria per<br />

raccogliere fondi per la Onlus<br />

Vernazza Futura, info su<br />

www.vernazzafutura.it<br />

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