Changelog

A verified guide to the Cinque Terre cantinas you can visit — three in Vernazza itself, the growers' cooperative, and a heroic-viticulture producer nearby — and why buying a bottle helps hold up the dry-stone walls that slow the floods.

The national criticality bulletin — river flooding, thunderstorms and landslide risk, today and tomorrow, in the gialla/arancione/rossa colours the Comune's ordinances cite — read from the Protezione Civile's open data and paired with the wind right now. Born from what this town lived through on 25 October 2011; the page sends you to allertaLIGURIA and 112 first, and says plainly when tomorrow's assessment isn't out yet.

The numbers daily life here actually runs on — the comune, the out-of-hours doctor, 24-hour water faults, the waste line, the park's trail info line and the ferry — checked against the official pages, with the 112 emergency rule up front.

The Harbour Conditions page carried a safety note written for patrolled beaches — it told swimmers to stay between the flags when lifeguards are on. Vernazza's harbour has neither, so the note now says plainly that there are no lifeguards here, that you swim at your own risk, and to look at the sea before you get in. The forecast itself is unchanged.

Vernazza joins Town Tools with three tools for a 700-person village that hosts millions. One reads a weather model on the steep slopes behind the village, where the Vernazzola's floods are born — the stream that buried Via Roma on 25 October 2011 — and shows how much rain is falling up high, while pointing firmly at Liguria's official alerts (it is not a flood warning). Another reads the sea at the Cinque Terre's only natural harbour, where people swim and the ferry ties up. The third lays out the shape of the year: when the village fills, when it's calm, and when the autumn rains come.