-The Cinque Terre: the uniqueness of the Cinque Terre, in Liguria, north Italy. north Italy

-The Cinque Terre: the five sea villages in northern part of Italy, Unesco Worls Heritage since 1997 are Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore.

-Cinque Terre, 5 Terre, Unesco World Heritage, Italy.

What is called Cinque Terre are five beautiful little sea villages, literally clung onto the rocks that are located in the north of Italy, in the region called Liguria, between the villages on Levanto, Portvenere and La Spezia.

Because of their unique beauty, made of precipitous sea-cliffs, little bays, tiny beaches, narrow, curvy roads, a huge net of footpaths that drives you into the Mediterranean Bush (Macchia Mediterranea), kilometers and kilometers of dry walls built to create terraces for the cultivation of grapevines, the Cinque Terre (5 Terre) Liguriahave been designated as "UNESCO World Heritage! Since 1997 and they are also Italian National Park and Protected Marine Area.

The Cinque Terre, Italy, 5 Terre, Liguria, Italy Unesco are located in a beautiful area: on the northern side you will find the Val di Vara (Vara Valley) and its fantastic "Borghi Rotondi", such as Brugnato or Varese Ligure, anchent villages built in a kind of round shape, with a castel or a church in the middle of the villages are the houses around it; on the eastern side of the Cinque Terre north Italy Unesco , 5 Terre north Italy Unesco, you will find breathtaking sea villages facing the Golfo dei Poeti (Poets Gulf): Lerici, Portovenere, Fiascherino, Tellaro. On the wester side of the Cinque Terre Italy Unesco, 5 Terre Italy there are more nice little villages, such as Levanto, Chiavari, the Golfo del Tigullio with Portofino and Santa Margherita Ligure and the Golfo Paradiso with unique hamlets such are Camogli and San Fruttuoso.

The uniqueness of the Cinque Terre, the five Unesco villages whose name are Riomaggiore 5 Terre, Manarola Cinque Terre, Corniglia Cinque Terre, Vernazza Cinque Terre, Monterosso Cinque Terre is also due to difficulties of connection with the other coastal villages of Liguria that lasted till the end of XIX: the railway line Genoa-La Spezia was ready only in 1874! This isolation concurred in maintaining the beauty and the charm of the Cinque Terre Liguria Italy.