Duration: ~12 hours 
Season: All year round

From: starting from € 250 per guest

Up to 6 guests​

Imagine departing from your chosen location in the comfort of a luxurious Mercedes Van, embarking on an exclusive journey to one of Italy’s most breathtaking destinations: the Cinque Terre. 🌿🌅

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the scenery as we drive through stunning landscapes, rolling vineyards, and charming coastal villages perched on the cliffs.

Your Unforgettable Journey Includes:

Monterosso al Mare: the only one with a real beach (and it knows it)

Monterosso is the "different one" of the Cinque Terre: while the other four cling to the cliffs without a grain of sand in sight, Monterosso shows up with an actual wide beach, complete with colorful umbrellas — which also makes it the busiest and most touristy in summer. It even has a medieval old town (Monterosso Vecchio) separated from the more modern part (Fegina) by a hill, connected by a tunnel carved through the rock. Fun fact: this is the birthplace of poet Eugenio Montale, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, who immortalized these landscapes in his verses — so if the view feels a little "poetic," that's not a coincidence.

Vernazza: the postcard everyone photographs without realizing it

If you've ever seen a photo of the Cinque Terre on a magazine cover or on Pinterest, chances are it was Vernazza. Its natural harbor surrounded by colorful houses perched over the sea is probably the most reproduced image of Liguria. Widely considered the prettiest village of the Cinque Terre (don't tell the other four), it also has a defensive quirk: the Doria Castle and tower were built specifically to spot incoming Saracen pirates from the sea. Fun fact: in 2011 a devastating flood buried the town under mud and debris — the locals rebuilt it almost entirely by hand, house by house, in record time.

Corniglia: the one that doesn't touch the sea (by geography, not by choice)

Corniglia is the oddball of the Cinque Terre: it's the only village that doesn't face the sea directly, instead perching on a promontory 100 meters up, surrounded on three sides by terraced vineyards. To reach it from the train station you have to climb a staircase with 33 switchbacks (the Lardarina) — or take the shuttle bus, for those who'd rather arrive with their lungs intact. Precisely because of this more isolated position, it remains the least crowded and most authentic of the five, still carrying the feel of a real village rather than a postcard set. Fun fact: its white wine (including the prized Sciacchetrà) is grown on terraces so steep that harvesting is done almost vertically, with monorail carts used to bring the grapes down the hillside.

Manarola: Italy's most photographed sunset

Manarola is probably the most Instagrammed village of the Cinque Terre, thanks to its perfect view over the cliffs that turn pink and orange at sunset — a spectacle that draws photographers from around the world every evening, all crowded onto the same two or three rocks. The village is also famous for the world's largest illuminated nativity scene, set up every Christmas on the Punta Bonfiglio hillside with over 300 lit-up figures, the work of a local retiree who started it as a hobby back in the 1960s. Fun fact: the "Via dell'Amore" ("Lovers' Lane"), the scenic path connecting Manarola to Riomaggiore, gets its name — according to legend — from couples from the two villages who used to meet exactly halfway, suspended between sky and sea.

Riomaggiore: the gateway village with the vertical houses

Riomaggiore is often the first village visitors see coming from the southern side, and it makes quite an impression: its pastel-colored tower-houses literally stack on top of one another along the narrow valley, creating that "layered" look that's become the very symbol of the Cinque Terre. The small harbor with colorful boats pulled up on the ramp is one of the most painted views in the area (literally — street artists set up here constantly). Fun fact: the houses were deliberately built tall and narrow, with the slimmest side facing the sea — an old architectural trick to shield against the libeccio winds and, some say, also to dodge taxes calculated on the width of a building's façade.