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news<br />
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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