Riomaggiore is the first of the Cinque Terre, starting from La Spezia, and is connected to Manarola via the famous Via dell’Amore (currently closed due to a landslide).
The Cinque Terre, Porto Venere, the Palmaria, Tino, and Tinetto islands are recognized as UNESCO World Heritage
Sites. They do not need advertising as they are well known worldwide and the flagship of Italian tourism.
I have never seen, in any other place I have visited so far, so many people of different nationalities around our beautiful country.
Just think that these areas, which remained isolated until the end of the 19th century, today have to deal with
essential tourist flows that exceed 3 million visitors every year.
The town of Riomaggiore overlooks the sea and can be reached by car, train, boat, or boat.
My various approaches to the Cinque Terre have been exclusively by train. I never give up the car as a means of transport, but given the difficulty in parking, the train becomes an essential convenience to move freely.
I recommend that you park your car comfortably in La Spezia, the station car park, and quickly reach this
beautiful area with a single-day ticket designed to get on freely and off the train for the entire Cinque Terre route. In this way, you will be free to choose what to visit, how long to stop, and in which direction to go to discover all five villages.
With a child "on our shoulders," we could visit them all in one day, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. All those houses and villages clinging to the rock and enclosed in those splendid inlets between land and sea are a natural spectacle of nature.
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