Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre
This is the first of a series of planning posts about an upcoming trip to Italy. If you are also planning a trip to Italy in the summer of 2015, this should be helpful! If it’s not 2015 anymore, I hope I’ve provided enough reference links for it to still be helpful.
Five Lands
The official Cinque Terre are five villages on the northern end of the west coast of Italy. From north-west to south-east, they are Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore. The spiffy part is that all of the villages are built up the side of the mountains on terraces; after my trip to Turkey I call this “Greek Architecture” because they always seem to be building towns up a hill in Turkey (back when that part was part of Greece) when there was a perfectly good plain nearby. The buildings are typically painted up like a Easter egg.