Walking / Italy
Cinque Terre
Italy 44.11° N, 9.73° E
Five fishing villages stacked on a cliff on the Ligurian coast, joined by footpaths, a railway and the sea.
In July the lower path is a queue. We take the upper trail in spring and autumn, when the terraces are green or gold and the tables by the water are free.
- Travel to
- Levanto, by train
- On the ground
- Walking, boats
- Stay in
- A small sea-view hotel
Best months
Best months: April, May, June, September, and October
Cinque Terre, up close.
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The high path
Old mule tracks link the hillside sanctuaries, two hundred metres above the crowds.
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The terraces
A thousand years of dry-stone walls, still worked by hand. You taste what they grow in a cellar cut into the rock.
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The water
Every day ends with a swim off the rocks and a boat home.
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