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Stonewalls for life

The project aims to restore 6 hectares of terraces and 4,000 square meters of dry stone walls in Cinque Terre (Italy) to improve agricultural production, preserve the territory and increase the ability to resist floods. 

The “amphitheater” of Manarola is the pilot site for the first actions to demonstrate how adaptation to climate change and the contrast to hydrogeological instability can also be ensured by the ancient art of dry stone walls.

The project, co-financed by the European Union under the LIFE "adaptation to climate change" program, is coordinated by the Cinque Terre National Park. The Manarola Foundation, the University of Genoa, Legambiente, Itrb and Barcelona Provincial Council (DIBA) in Catalonia are part of the partnership.

“For centuries the Cinque Terre community coexisted with a fragile and extreme territory, entire generations have dedicated themselves to the reshaping of the hills, to get streams and springs and land to cultivate. Precious elements otherwise destined to degrade towards the sea”.

Donatella Bianchi, President of the Cinque Terre National Park

With each newsletter it will be possible to download a photo of the Cinque Terre specially selected for subscribers.

Issue 1 - Information, insights, upcoming events

These are the contents of the fist issue of the newsletter with information on the project in short, an interview to the Manarola Foundation and a description of an itinerary to discover ancient walls and stones in the Western Riviera of Liguria You will be able to download a high-definition photo of the Cinque Terre.

Issue 2 - Work begins on the pilot site

Many news in the second issue of Stonewallsforlife newsletter starting with the assignment of the works of the first lot in the amphitheater of Manarola, it continues with a video showing what is happening in Catalonia, in the first replication site of the project, to go back to Cinque Terre with Stefano and Alessandro, footpaths’ maintenance workers for the National Park, who describe the art of breaking stone, to close with Ruth Manfredi of Save Vernazza, local association which supports Stonewallsforlife, who tells how love for the territory means a precious help to mitigate the climate change.

Issue 3 - Between past and future: the story of ancient dry-stone walls in the pilot site

The landscape above Manarola changed. The view is impressive: we can now see clean strips where before there used to be brambles, trees and mainly Mediterranean scrub. In a series of interviews, the agronomist Paola Caffa, Eugenio Bordoni of the Fondazione Manarola and researchers from the University of Genoa's geology department tell us how much work is still to be done. Our project was also presented in a long report on TGR Liguria on World Earth Day