While the villages are known under one name — Cinque Terre, or "Five Lands" — each has its own distinctive characteristics. Monterosso al Mare contains the best-known beach, which is dotted ...

If you're hoping to spend your vacation lounging on a sandy beach ... best Italian wines you'll taste on your travels. There are opportunities for hiking in all of the villages of Cinque Terre ...

The dramatic scenery and laid-back lifestyle of Italy’s Cinque Terre ... it's best started from Corniglia to avoid the long ascent from Vernazza. Vernazza, with its small sand beach, is the ...

Like so much of the Italian Riviera, this is an area best explored on ... umbrellas line the public beach in Monterosso, one of the five villages that make up Cinque Terre. (Lori Rackl) Angelo ...