Read for tips on how to visit Cinque Terre without the crowds, plus one Afar editor's experience visiting the area.

With its winding, crowd-free streets, baroque palazzos and exquisite Ligurian cuisine, this Cinque Terre stopover deserves to ...

A number of cruises port away from main cities, with some destinations even being almost a two-hour coach journey after you ...

Maryanne Sparkes, a European Waterways itinerary specialist, said: "We’ve seen travellers on mainstream cruises step off at ...

You’ve got plenty of time and provided you arrive at a reasonable hour, you could take one of the transit tours offered by Qatar Airways.

Beyond the usual tourist trails of Italy lies a town with a quiet elegance and palm tree-lined streets and squares, perched on the edge of the Ligurian Sea.

People sunbath and swim at the beach of Monterosso in the Cinque Terre National Park, near La Spezia, nortwestern Italy, on Aug. 13, 2024. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997 with almost 4,000 ...

Over our stay in Cinque Terre, we eat ice-cream and seafood and pastas and bruschettas and morning croissants. We drink Aperols and local wines and many varieties of coffees. But mostly ...

In the Cinque Terre, trains or walking boots are your only options. If you’d still rather go car-free, Italy ’s public transport system is your friend. Lerici is an easy 40-minute bus ride ...

Cinque Terre is a stunning part of the Italian Riviera and has a rugged coastline straight out of a picture book. When planning where to stay in Cinque Terre, most visitors choose one of the five ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A group of four women will spend a week visiting Florence, Portofino and the Cinque Terre in May 2024. Is train the best way to get ...