The Sentiero Vernazza a Corniglia is a section of the popular blue trail, which also goes by the names "No. 2" and "Sentiero Azzurro." You'll need your Cinque Terre Card to access the trail.

On my trip to Cinque Terre, I explored the charming villages of Vernazza, Manarola, and Riomaggiore—skipping Monterosso and ...

Vernazza: My favorite Cinque Terre village. (Photo by Rick Steves) Corniglia, with its mellow main square, is the quiet town — the only one of the five not on the water.From the train station, a ...

Cinque Terre’s iconic ‘path of love’ is back. Don’t love it to death. Travelers can finally hike Italy’s Via dell’Amore again after a decade of restoration.

Located in northern Italy between Pisa and Genoa, this stretch of five towns along the Italian Riviera is called the Cinque Terre…and it’s the lowbrow, underappreciated alternative to the ...

The Cinque Terre National Park, one of Italy's most popular tourist destinations, is set to enforce one-way restrictions on a major hiking path on Wednesday, May 1st. Advertisement The restriction ...

A notice on Cinque Terre National Park’s website reads: ‘Attention, mandatory one way on the path from Monterosso to Vernazza,’ which is along the famed ‘sentiero azzurro’ or blue footpath.

Only a few vintners remain, but today, these holdouts are making some of Italy’s most distinctive wines. Cinque Terre is known for its intensely mineral, saline whites, usually made from bosco ...

Let photos of Italy’s Cinque Terre brighten your day Go for a virtual walk through the colorful Cinque Terre — that string of five charming villages along the north Italian coast.

I’m up early in my favorite village on the Italian Riviera, as the morning sun touches the tip of Vernazza’s bell tower and greets a peaceful world. The air is damp, cool, and refreshing as I ...