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Bookmark & shareThis cluster of romantic villages will intoxicate you with its grandeur.
If you miss the five villages that make up the Cinque Terre (literally 'five lands'), you will have bypassed some of Italy's most extraordinary countryside. (It is a Unesco World Heritage site and on the World Monument Fund list.) But blink as the train zips between tunnels and miss them you will.
Fast Facts
Population
6,000
Currency
Name: Euro
Code: EUR
Symbol: €
Electrical Plugs
220V 50Hz
Languages Spoken
Official: Italian
Time Zones
GMT/UTC +1
Country Dialing Code
+39
Weights & Measures
Metric
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