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The Cinque Terre National Park with its 4,300 acres is the smallest National Park in Italy and at the same time the most densely populated, with 5,000 residents in five villages: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso al Mare.

Here man in more than a thousand years has "changed" the natural environment by dissecting the steep slopes of the hills to obtain strips of arable land, the so-called “ciàn” (local dialect), supported by about seven thousand miles of stone walls, the length of the Great Wall of China.

This tract is the real identity of the Cinque Terre, with a highly unusual man-made landscape. That’s why it is the Park made by man, an area that became a World Heritage Site.