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Sunday, January 8

Service Learning: Dry Terrace Wall Restoration


Weather permitting, today we will spend two hours assisting a local expert to repair the endangered dry terrace walls for which the Cinque Terre is so famous.

Dry Walls

Readings

Read the European Union's Culture 2000 Programme  Smart History report on the geology, hydrology, and economics of the Cinque Terre's dry terrace walls.


Links

Terraces

The terraced walls of the Cinque Terre are listed as one of the world's most endangered sites by Archeology Magazine in its Nov./Dec. 1999 issue.