Church of St Peter Portovenere Italy
by Joan Carroll
Title
Church of St Peter Portovenere Italy
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
I just had it in my head that I wanted to hike around Isola Palmaria, an island that is a five minute ferry ride from Portovenere, Italy. So from Cinque Terre, we took the train to La Spezia followed by Mr Toad’s Wild (bus) Ride to Portovenere and then the ferry ride. Once on the island, we had two big decisions to make: the first was whether to hike clockwise around the island…or counterclockwise. We chose clockwise. Then when we reached the highest point of the island, we had to decide whether to take the hike laid out in the pamphlet that we had, which cut across the middle of the island, or to take another route that looked like it went along the coast. We elected the coastal path even though it looked very steep (it was) and the sign said ‘dificile’. We didn’t need to speak much Italian to understand that! But the sheer cliffs of the Mediterranean coastline were spectacular and the views of Portovenere’s Church of St Peter (Chiesa di San Pietro, seen here) on a rocky promontory dominated the last half hour of the hike. From here, Isola Palmaria overlooks a small channel called Le Bocche that connects the Ligurian Sea to the Gulf of Poets. Isola Palmaria itself is a small island, less than 1 sq mi and is largely uninhabited . In 1997, the archipelago of Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto islands, together with Portovenere and the Cinque Terre, was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
FEATURED PHOTO, Catholic Art Gallery group, 5/29/19
FEATURED PHOTO, The Road To Self Promotion group, 5/29/19
FEATURED PHOTO, Churches group, 5/28/19
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Comments (35)
L A Feldstein
Great image; when was this built?
Joan Carroll replied:
thank you LA. Complicated history, most articles say the 'original church' (whatever that means) dates from the 5th century and build on top of a pagan temple. But consecrated (whatever that means) in 1198.
Christopher James
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