Cinque Terre - Homage to the elders in Riomaggiore - vintage version
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Cinque Terre - Homage to the elders in Riomaggiore - vintage version
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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Homage to the elders in Piazza Vignaioli in Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, Italy. Vintage version.
One of the latest urban improvements in Riomaggiore, the Piazza Vignaioli was built above the train station. Kids just leave their bikes there when they are not using them and the view of the harbor and the sea from the balcony is just spectacular. Some young of Cinque Terre took to painting empty walls with images and portraits of the village elders. This is a painting I found in this piazza, describing the work in the vines and showing details of faces and labor-worn hands. A beautiful homage.
There is a version of this image without the texture.
I stopped by these five little villages clinging to the steep slopes of the Ligurian coast of Cinque Terre on my way to Florence. I admit I had not heard about them until I defined my route.
Cinque Terre is a place where time takes a rest. No cars, no motorbikes, you move from one village to the other by train and walk around with hurry and stress all but forgotten. A wonderful place to linger, to let your soul roam free, timeless...
I only spent a couple of days there, but that gave me the chance to see those places at many different times of day, some of them crowded with tourists, some of them empty and quiet.
The Cinque Terre show all their beauty when the tourists leave for their resting places and the sun moves on to light other parts of the world. It is in these moments, or when you leave the center of the villages, when you can breathe in the peaceful rhythm of this beautiful and fragile place.
I loved it there. I will return.
You can learn more about what drives me in my blog:
http://inspiringthoughtsandimages.com/
Weston Westmoreland.
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November 4th, 2015
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