HERE'S WHY 'THIS WEEK' DEDICATED TO LIGURIA
Disfigure FIVE LANDS Pascucci.ROMA Isabella - The Aurora Tower not have dominion over Monterosso. Because there is no more Monterosso al Mare. It was swept away by the fury of a flood that ravaged this corner of paradise are the Cinque Terre. And the spell has turned into hell. Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore: 5 pearls along the eastern Ligurian Riviera disfigured. The deepest wounds are those left on Monterosso and Vernazza, evacuated and isolated, except for connections by boat or on the train that shuttles to Levanto. Monterosso, consisting of the old town, with the remains of the castle overlooking the sea, and the modern part that slopes down to the beach, in a maze of alleyways and ancient towers, there is only a river of mud "Here everything is lacking, food, water, electricity. People moving into the homes from the terraces, "said Mayor Angelo Betta. Two thousand people stranded in the village, a rescuer who died in an attempt to uncover the manhole covers, and tragedy touched when the main street of the town was flooded by tons of mud.
Even Vernazza, made ​​famous by the value of its architecture, galleries and arcades throughout, and the picturesque square, is wounded to death: 3 missing, 3 wounded and one man caught a stroke with other 150 people rescued and transported by sea to La Spezia. "It will take years before the situation returns to normal," said Deputy Mayor Jerome Leonardini. It costs hundreds of boats along the drift.
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