Cinque Terre

The Coast land, rough and steep, after the Gulf of Poets, north of Portovenere, has for centuries been cultivated with grapes vines and olive trees. We are talking here about the Cinque Terre, where the intense sent of aromatic herb mixes with the fresh sea air.

In the Cinque Terre and surroundings
Summer rentals

Cinque Terre, five villages like five jewels: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso, with brightly-coloured houses, steps descending steeply to the sea, roads carved through the rocks such as "via dell'Amore" ("the path of Love") between Riomaggiore and Manarola.