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CINQUE TERRE

Province of La Spezia

Region Liguria Capital La Spezia Total Population 215,137 Males 102,147 Females 112,990

La Spezia Maps Official Site Museums Abbr. SP

Cinque Terre and the best of Liguria

'Cinque Terre' means 'five lands', and Italy's famous Cinque Terre are five perilously-perched villages strung along a short stretch of cliffs in Liguria, at the top left of Italy's boot. In recent years the area has become enormously popular with a particular type of tourist - American, British and German hikers with walking boots and backpacks. Crowding into the area, these cheerful visitors have ignited a thriving cottage industry of tourism, but apart from the numbers of tourists and the "Rooms - Zimmer - Camere" signs everywhere, this has impacted little upon the natural beauty of the landscape and shabby 'authentic' charm of the fishing villages.

Cinque Terre Tourist Information

On arrival in the area, you should hunt out an information office (easy to do; they're right by each station and on Platform 1 at La Spezia station).

The information offices will also provide you with leaflets about the National Park, a map of footpaths (rather basic) and a train timetable (invaluable).

Cinque Terre Travel Information

The handiest airports for this stretch of the Italian Riviera are Genoa and Pisa - both towns are connected by rail to the coast, and both are on budget airline routes from the UK.

Each of the five villages has its own train station, and trains stop at all of them roughly once an hour. Some of the trains passing through don't stop; others stop only at one or two villages - so study the timetables carefully. Connections with the rest of Italy are good; this stretch of track is on the Pisa - Genoa mainline, although you may need to change at a nearby station such as La Spezia.

The three main modes of transport in the Cinque Terre are foot, train and boat. Passenger ferries link the villages at frequent intervals (and less frequently they also run to Portovenere); while the trains provide an extremely quick way of getting from one to another (stations are only a few minutes apart). Corniglia is the least accessible; boats don't stop there, and the station is a bus-ride or steep climb from the centre. Walking is of course what most tourists come here to do; the main coastal path between the villages can be managed in around five hours. Those inclined to avoid steps and steep slopes should think hard before visiting. Local buses run within each village, but do not connect the settlements with each other.

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