Cinque Terre
August 7th 2009 This is the place everyone told me I had to go in Italy. All the Americans, anyway. I am happy to say they were right; it is an incredibly magical and beautiful place.
It is in Liguria, on the northwest coast of Italy. Cinque terre means something like 5 towns (earths, or soils, literally) because there are 5 little towns connected by footpaths in this national park. I had been in this region
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