Landscape and Territory

The landscape of Cinque Terre, recognized by the UNESCO as World Cultural Heritage, is unique due to its peculiarities, and it belongs to that great variety of landscapes, representative of the different regions and cultures of the world. In these landscapes the combined work of human beings and nature, expresses a long and intimate relationship of people with their environment. "To discover and maintain the great differences in the integration between human beings and their environment, to protect the living traditional cultures or to preserve the tracks of those that disappear, these sites, defined as cultural landscapes, have been included in the list of the world heritage. The cultural landscapes: mountain cultures and terraces, gardens, sacred places testify the creative genius of human beings, their social evolution, the power of their imagination and their spirituality. They represent a part of their identity" (UNESCO, 1972)