Landscape Observatories Near Cinque Terre: From Do It Yourself To Public Intervention. (Liguria-Italy)

Tramonti (La Spezia), a World Heritage Site due to the original character of the terraced landscape with vineyards, morphologically is the anchor of the link between the landscape of Porto Venere and the Cinque Terre.
Historically the grapevines in this area, still reachable today only through very steep stairs from the top, were planted 'low' to adapt to harsh environmental conditions. They remain today as 'relics' of this type of cultivation, always replaced more from culture, although manual, but 'higher', with the introduction of racks for transporting grapes. The town of La Spezia has launched a pilot project on the recovery of a private decking area with maintenance and cultivation of grapes currently abandoned following new types of farming . A dilemma: is the path followed by the town better with recovery of many abandoned terraces or is the almost impossible conservation of the low cultivation of the grapevines preferable?