Cinque Terre · Liguria
Vernazza
The natural harbour — many call it the most beautiful of the five.Bilde 2 (Vernazza)
One coast · five living chapters
Founded around the year 1000 and shaped by Genoa from 1276, Vernazza grew around the only safe harbour on this coast. Its pastel houses press close around the water, watched over by the Doria castle and the Belforte tower.
High above the harbour stands Santa Margherita d'Antiochia, a Ligurian-Gothic church from 1318. Its octagonal bell tower rises forty metres — and the clock you see on our shore still keeps Vernazza's time, its bells marking every hour.
The particulars
- Founded
- ≈ year 1000
- Residents
- ≈ 700
- Church
- Santa Margherita, 1318
- Bell tower
- 40 m, octagonal
Meet this village from the quiet side — the water.