Visitors flock to this part of northwest Italy, chasing their own version of la dolce vita, the sweet life. And they come to hike.

The scenic views make it a popular choice for hikers. The entire area is part of the Cinque Terre National Park, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. We toured mostly on foot while taking a ...

The Cinque Terre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and became Italy’s first national park in 1999. Like all good national parks, it’s loaded with hikes. The most famous hike is the Verde Azzurro ...

In fact, that's what makes this national park – also called Park of Man – so unique, since for centuries, the people of Cinque Terre cultivated the steep, sloping land and built stone walls to ...

Cinque Terre is a group of cinque (five ... Since it became both a UNESCO World Heritage Site and national park in the past couple of decades, the area has been saved from the commercialism ...