Monterosso al Mare

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.

Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.

Monterosso al Mare is the northernmost and largest of the five villages of the Cinque Terre, on the Ligurian coast in the Province of La Spezia, Italy. It sits about twelve metres above the sea between Levanto and Vernazza.

Monterosso has the only extensive sand beach in the Cinque Terre, where the other four villages meet the water on rock. It is also the largest of the five and the only one clearly split in two, the old town and the seafront quarter of Fegina.

The Giant, or Il Gigante, is a fourteen-metre figure of Neptune in reinforced concrete at the Fegina end of the beach. The sculptor Arrigo Minerbi built it in 1910 as part of the seaside terrace of Villa Pastine; storms and wartime bombing later stripped away its trident and arms.

The Church of San Giovanni Battista stands in the old town, built between 1282 and 1307 in the Ligurian Gothic style, its facade striped in white marble and dark stone. A marble rose window sits above the main door.

Monterosso has its own station on the Genoa–La Spezia railway, in service since 1870, with frequent regional trains linking all five Cinque Terre villages. Cars are kept largely out of the centre, and the coastal Sentiero Azzurro footpath connects the village to Vernazza on foot.

Monterosso is known for salted anchovies cured in the village, for its lemons, and for Sciacchetra, a sweet wine pressed from grapes dried on the steep coastal terraces. Pesto and other Ligurian dishes are local staples as well.

The poet Eugenio Montale, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975, spent his boyhood summers at a family villa in Fegina. The Cinque Terre landscape runs through his 1925 debut collection, Ossi di seppia.

It has been a meaningful gift for many of our customers with ties to the coast. Monterosso is where many travellers first reach the Cinque Terre, and its beach and painted houses are the image people carry home. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The warm, saturated colour of the artwork sits well in coastal-modern, Mediterranean, and jewel-tone interiors. It holds the eye against a pale plaster or limewashed wall, and grounds a room built on deeper blues and terracotta.

Yes. Mediterranean and coastal-modern interiors have moved toward real place and warm pigment over generic seaside motifs, and a specific Ligurian harbour reads as considered rather than themed. The Medium and Large work as the anchor piece on a feature wall.

Above a sofa, a single Large or a four-tile Mural holds the wall without crowding it. Above a console or a bed, a Medium or a nine-tile Mural sits in proportion. For a shelf or a desk, the Keepsake or a Small is the right scale.

Yes. For a bathroom, a shower, or a kitchen backsplash, choose the Dura Satin or Matte finish, which is scratch-resistant and made for damp, vertical installations. The Glossy finish is better kept to framed wall pieces in dry rooms.

A soft microfibre cloth and plain water are all it needs. The colour is infused into the ceramic surface and sits beneath a thin glossy finish, so it will not fade or lift with ordinary cleaning. Skip abrasive pads and harsh solvents.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is created in-house by Reid Wender and produced in our Knoxville studio, with no licensed or stock imagery. Each tile is hand-finished, with the colour infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure.