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Published: September 1st 2006
Eighteen kilometers of sheer rocky coastline in northern Italy, terraced hills and vineyards sloping steeply down to the sea. Five little villages are built into the rocks between the beach and the hills. You can hike, swim, drink red wine, and watch blazing Mediterranean sunsets away from the tourist multitudes in the Italian cities and the French Riviera. Centuries old footpaths and mule tracks wind about 500 to 1,000 feet above the sea, leading through olive groves and vineyards, orchards and chestnut woods.
Each village has its own character, they are a few minutes apart by train.
There are almost no cars as the villages are not easily accessible by road, but the main railway between Rome and Paris runs along the coast, mainly in tunnels.
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Katie
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so jelous you got to work in Italy!
How did you get a job in such a country? I've tried to work there for so long because is such an awesome country to live in... good for you, you were one of the few lucky ones i guess!... and that cinque terre looks like form a fairy tale...so jelous (the good kind)