DIMORAMARE is a bright studio apartment dedicated for two people, located on the first floor of the house over the sea.
Inside you will find all the amenities of an apartment — entrance hall, bathroom and a room with kitchen corner dinner and sleeping area.
Two French windows provide an exceptional panoramic view so you can enjoy fabulous sunsets and relax listening the sound of the sea.
Manarola is a typical Ligurian village overlooking the sea, it reminds the bow of a ship that is still in the dock, but is about to sail off…
This is the home of a "fisherman" and a dreamer. THE BOAT.
Proprietor, gallery owner from Milan has a great passion for vintage design.
We are in Manarola, the Natural Park of "5 Terre" patronised by UNESCO, is famous for it’s perfect "postcard" image of one of the most beautiful places in the world from the landscape point of view.
The best decision for such place was to "do nothing" and let the landscape enter the space as a disruptive force that expands its' dimensions towards infinity. Like that the disposition and inner decorations are getting the unique shape. The colours of the space are coming directly from the Sea and its’ shades. Starting from the Blue Klein ultramarine at the entrance and closet area (the deepest part of the house with almost no natural light, just like the seabed) coming to the aqua-green parquet — the exact shade of the seashore water right below the house;
While the alternating volumes of the inner space are based on blues and greens of the the seaside that stretches to the horizon. Another important part was to perceive and utilise the Ligurian culture of pictorial and architectural decoration of the facades. Thus the modernist cubistic «Pontian» painting is used to emphasise an actual protagonist of this house: the Sea. This way the wall with windows turns into the setting that frames the landscape, and is devided by lights and colours crowned with mirrors. Together with «Dionysus Mirrors» collection by Ettore Sottsass, chosen as the only decoration of the space, they are designed to reflect and reproduce the landscape inside the room, just like portholes in a boat would do. And just like that the Venetian chandelier from the 30s is turning into lantern that lights the way home for the fisherman during the night.
Architect Marco Parmeggiani
http://www.marcoparmeggiani.com
How to find us:
Via Belvedere, 215
Manarola
It is the second town of Cinque Terre after Riomaggiore, if you are coming from La Spezia. The urban pearl, resting in a dark bend of the cliff right above the sea, is greeting the traveler with bright colours of houses-towers with terraces on the roof. It has a small harbour surrounded by rocks with the boats “parked” along the main street.
Manarola with it’s ancient origins, probably takes its' name from «magna roea» what means a large mill wheel as it was called in this area. The village was founded in the XII century by community that moved to the sea from Val Di Vara in search of new resources and the ability to control the seashore, defending against raids from Saracen pirates;
The structure of the city is formed around the Groppo River, which is now hidden under the town and flows into the sea. From here begins a labyrinth of narrow, stone-paved alleys leading to the houses on the sides of the promontory.
In the upper part of the city there is a square where religious buildings are concentrated, including the main monument, San Lorenzo church built in gothic style, a chapel and a bell tower, which stays separate from the main building of the church, because it probably had been used for a defence at the beginning.
On the rocky shore facing the sea, you can see the ruins of the castle tower, which is now used as an apartment. The castle itself was a stronghold of the village's defense against pirate raids, while the town slowly grew around it, but it was destroyed in the 15th century by a fleet of Genoese battleships.
The last section of Via Belvedere is also very interesting, it’s like a balcony overlooking the sea, where you can enjoy fabulous sunsets, and where our apartment "Manarola Dimoramare" is located. Via Belvedere ends with a panoramic square, which is almost suspended above the sea and dedicated to the writer Eugenio Montale, whose memorial plaque presents the first lines of Riviera's poem.
Manarola is one of the quietest villages of 5 Terre national park and is a great retreat after a busy day of hiking. There are numbers of hiking trails with breathtaking views which for centuries used to be the only connection between little towns in this area. In the summer time you can also take a sun and swim near the pier or from the stairs of Palaedo.
