CT Il Telegrafo Portovenere

We Walk from Il Telegrafo to Portovenere

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September 20th 2017
The previous night we heard the thunder rolling around the hills, the forecast storms having finally arrived. However the morning was fine so it was a good time to walk the other end of Cinque Terre. We had originally considered walking the whole way from Rio Maggiore but decided that this would take too long and be quite arduous as we would have to climb a high hill called Il Telegrafo, for obvio ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more