Where you sleep in Cinque Terre shapes the whole trip, because the magic here happens at the edges of the day. Stay in one of the villages and you get the golden hour after the day-trippers leave and the early…
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The Best Photo Spots in Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre is one of the most photographed corners of Italy, and for once the photographs do not oversell it. Five villages stacked in pink and ochre above a turquoise sea, terraced vineyards climbing impossible slopes, boats tipped up in…
The Long Way Between the Villages
There is a kind of tiredness that feels like a reward, and this morning I went looking for it on the cliff path above Vernazza. I had promised myself the night before, over the last of the wine, that I…
The Best Beaches in Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre is famous for its cliffs, its trails and its five stacked villages, but people are often surprised to learn it is also a place you can swim. It is not a classic sand-and-sunbeds coast, with one clear exception,…
The Complete Guide to Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre means “the five lands,” and that is exactly what it is: five small villages strung along a stretch of the Ligurian coast so steep and so folded that for most of their history the easiest way between them…
