LEGENDS FROM THE CINQUE TERRE

Over the years, the grandfathers of the sea village have told the kids a particoular legend: when the locals of Riomaggiore tried to catch the moon.
The villegers used their wine barrels to get to the moon: hundreds of barrels where they were used to ripen their good white wine.
They built a very high tower which got lost in the sky - but the Moon still looked unreacheable.
Give or take, only one barrel was missing to finnaly reach the Moon. So, as there weren't no more barrels to use, they had a genius idea: to take off the first barrel from the rook so that it could had been added to the top. 
Said and done: the most strong men of the village took off the first barrel.
Suddenly the barrels tower fell down, barrel after barrel, making the locals of Riomaggiore giving up the feat.
 

Story by Bruno Della Rosa