Cinque Terre National Park

Cinque Terre National Park
View of the cliffs of the Cinque Terre
Coordinates: 44 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E
Location:	Liguria , Italy
Next city:	La Spezia
Surface:	38.60 km²
Founding:	1999

The Cinque Terre National Park (Italian Parco nazionale delle Cinque Terre ) is one of the 24 national parks in Italy . It was founded in 1999 and stretches north of La Spezia on the Ligurian coast. It covers an area of ​​3860  hectares , which includes the municipalities of La Spezia, Levanto , Monterosso al Mare , Riomaggiore and Vernazza . The park is located in the cultural landscape of the Cinque Terre , which was included by UNESCO in the list of world natural and cultural heritage in 1997 . The task of preserving the historical, cultural and natural heritage of the park inland and on the coast has been entrusted to a park administration.

The park borders on the whale sanctuary in the Mediterranean Sea between Liguria , southern France and Sardinia , which was also established in 1999 , which has a high biodiversity and is also the habitat of many marine mammals : many striped dolphins and fin whales live here , but also numerous other, rarer whale and dolphin species.

From the 1950s, when over 8,000 people still lived in the area, the population dropped to below 5,000 by the early 1990s. Terraces , which partially fell into disrepair before the park was founded, are increasingly bearing olive trees and vineyards again. With pilot projects, the park management promotes attempts to mediate between the interests of landscape protection , agriculture and tourism. Since organic products are fetching higher prices, such projects also reach areas that have hitherto been reluctant to return to traditional agricultural methods - for example because hunting was part of their way of life. In addition, almost lost areas can be regained for traditional forms of housing and cultivation. Above all, the reading stone walls are of great importance, the total length of which was calculated to be 6729 km.

The park has seven visitor centers in Corniglia , La Spezia , Lavaccio , Manarola , Monterosso al Mare , Riomaggiore and Vernazza .

literature

• Fabiana Gatti, Francesco Fornelli: L'Ente Parco Cinque Terre. In: Fabiana Gatti, Francesca Romana Puggelli (eds.): Nuove frontiere del turismo. Postmodernismo, psicologia ambientale e nuove tecnologie , Hoepli, Milan 2006, pp. 102-119. ISBN 88-203-3646-4

Web links

Commons : Parco nazionale delle Cinque Terre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Park website
• Subpage of Parks.it, portal of the Italian parks

Remarks

1. ↑ The World Heritage Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) at UNESCO (English, accessed on October 8, 2012)
2. ^ Ignazio Vinci: Piani e politiche territoriali in aree di parco. Cinque modelli di innovazione a confronto , reprint, Milan 2007, graphic 1, p. 32.