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 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,…
Let the Sea Keep the Time
There is only one of these five villages where you can properly lie down beside the sea, so this morning I did the sensible thing and went there. Vernazza has its little harbour and its boats, but it does not…
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…
