Italy’s Cinque Terre is famous for its sunny-coloured, cliff-clinging villages linked by vertiginous walking paths. The hiking routes draw thousands of visitors in spring and summer, to the extent ...

Church bells echoed through the sunny piazza as I plopped down on a stone bench, digging my plastic spoon into a cup of basil gelato. I’d hiked about 5 miles that morning. I had another 5 to go. A ...

Best lemonade in all of the Cinque Terre!” While my sister-in-law bought a sun hat and I slathered on sun screen that cost me $15 for the oversight, I stopped a woman with a hiking stick and asked in ...

This place doesn’t look real. From the top of a steep hillside covered in lemon trees and grapevines, the village of Manarola tumbles out below, like a handful of pink, orange and yellow blocks that ...

The days of having the Cinque Terre to yourself are long gone. The string of villages along the Ligurian coast in Italy is far too exposed. Rick Steves wanders the lovely streets and waxes poetic ...

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