Presepe di Manarola
Cultural siteCinque TerreAbout 45 minutes
A nativity scene built into the terraced hillside above Manarola out of scrap and several hundred figures, lit from December to the end of January and visible across the bay. One man started it in the 1970s and it grew. Only worth planning around in winter, when the coast is otherwise very quiet.
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