Rick Steves' favorite town in Cinque Terre is also home to a charming ancient castle, one that stood guard against pirates in ...

Cinque Terre is a group of cinque (five) villages — Monterosso, Vernazza, Manarola, Riomaggiore and Corniglia — strung along cliffs that overlook the Ligurian Sea. Since it became both a UNESCO World ...

Italy’s crescent-shaped Riviera – which arcs from the French border to Tuscany – is synonymous with the Cinque Terre (those five postcard-perfect coastal fishing villages, with brightly coloured ...

I remember seeing Cinque Terre, Italy for the first time on my dad's computer screensaver. The colorful buildings and jagged cliffs seemed unreal. The dreamy scene was so far from what my flat ...

When I first came to the Cinque Terre, then an isolated stretch of the Italian Riviera south of Genoa, it was a classic “back door”: a string of five pastel-hued hamlets, gently and steadily carving a ...