Notizie dalla Fondazione

Protecting Cinque Terre’s terraced landscape

With your donation you can support the efforts of the Manarola Foundation to protect a site of the Unesco World Heritage and to help locals to keep living there and travellers to still visit this unique place. You are guaranteeing a future to Cinque Terre.   Why is it so important the recovery and maintenance

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Give a Stone as gift this Christmas: you will contribute to save Cinque Terre

Christmas time is the only period of the year in which we pay less attention to what we spent, looking for the perfect gift until the very end. But what happen if we contribute to do good with the Christmas gifts? It seems very strange to think that Cinque Terre are in danger, but unfortunately it

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The Men on the Mountain – Boubakar’s story

Boubakar* – Guinea (West Africa)   Important Note: Boubakar could only communicate in French and his native language in Guinea. Therefore, we were offered the assistance of a fellow worker to translate our questions and his responses.    Boubakar was contentedly working in a shop selling goods like rice and fruit in Guinea before his

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The Men on the Mountain – Gibril’s story

Gibril* – Nigeria (West Africa) Gibril was a builder and small shop owner in Nigeria before his world completely changed. He has 6 brothers and sisters and rather young, hardly in his twenties. He tells us he was living well in his country and doing okay. There he was, one day helping with building projects

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Last month the Manarola Foundation together with the Cinque Terre National Park of (represented by Gian Carlo Celano and Matteo Perrone, respectively) were guests of the Shouf Biosphere reserve in Lebanon for an exchange of knowledge on the management and maintenance of the terraced landscape. The meeting happened inside the STONE project– Restoration and valorization

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The Men on the Mountain – Ousmane’s story

When we discuss land restoration in Manarola, we recognize that it’s much easier to talk about these projects than to physically get up and do the hard-manual labor it takes to bring such plans to fruition. Ousmane* – Gambia (West Africa) Ousmane sits down and almost instantaneously opens up about his experiences at home in

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The Men on the Mountain – Mamadou’s story

When we discuss land restoration in Manarola, we recognize that it’s much easier to talk about these projects than to physically get up and do the hard-manual labor it takes to bring such plans to fruition. Mamadou* – Gambia (West Africa)  He is wearing in a light green hoodie. He smiles and greets us politely

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The Men on the Mountain

When we discuss land restoration in Manarola, we recognize that it’s much easier to talk about these projects than to physically get up and do the hard-manual labor it takes to bring such plans to fruition. Economic support of the foundation’s members, local businesses, and event donations are all essential in carrying out this noble

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For this Christmas a special thought to support the Manarola Cinqueterre Foundation.

2018 is about to end and the budget of the Manarola Foundation is more than positive. The donations received totaled € 8,000, thanks to the generosity of 54 local companies and donations received through the Foundation’s website. The conclusion of the first workshop about the dry stone walls building technique for residents, in partnership with the

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Dry walls recognized as UNESCO heritage

Italian and other dry-stone walls were added to UNESCO’s list of the world’s intangible heritage of humanity. The articles below offer an in-depth analysis about the Manarola Foundation’s work to rebuild the dry-stone walls collapsed. Moreover it is mentioned the dry-stone walls workshop organized by the National Park of Cinqueterre together with the Manarola Foundation

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