Manarola, Italy

Cinque Terre Changes

  A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on some of the national parks in Europe. In this post, one of the parks I featured was the Cinque Terre in Italy. This national park and UNESCO World Heritage site has made the news recently, unfortunately for some not so great news. The big news…

Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre means Five Lands in Italian. For travelers Cinque Terre conjures up images of colorful villages perilously clinging to seaside cliffs, always seeming to be ready to tumble into the blue-green sea.     These five towns are located in the Liguria region of northwest Italy. From north to south they are Monterosso al…