Cinque Terre and Portofino

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Cinque Terre and Portofino

Five picture postcard villages on the Liguria Riviera, coloured houses on steep hills, small squares and colourful boats, all make up this wonderfully picturesque tour.

Suggested Programme

Day 1

Arrival and dinner at your hotel.

Day 2

Enjoy an excursion centring on the beautiful Cinque Terre, or Five Lands, now a National Park that encompasses 10 miles of rocky coastline.

Time has stood still for the five villages, Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore, which you can discover by bus, train and boat. The villages were at one time only accessible by boat or footpath and consequently the villagers built their houses from the sea upwards.

Cinque Terre is a popular alternative to the big towns that dot the Italian and French Riviera. Your journey back to the hotel is partly by boat, so that you can admire the coastline.

Day 3

Travel to Rapallo where you board your ship for a sail along the most well-known coast of the Riviera, to Portofino.

Portofino has long been, and still is, a capital of high society and the so-called ‘Jet Set’, it is however, much more than that. It offers lush Mediterranean hillside forests and charming villages loaded with history and splendour.

Portofino began as a Phoenician port, then was ruled by Rome, and finally served the Republic of Genoa, and was a cultural meeting point for writers and philosophers.

Day 4

Included Services:

3 nights incl. HB in a middle-class hotel along the Versilia coast
1 x full-day guide Cinque Terre excursion
1 x train ride in Cinque Terre
1 x boat ride Monterosso/ Portovenere/La Spezia
1 x boat ride Rapallo/ Portofino return

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Cinque Terre and Portofino