Complete Cinque Terre Travel Guide | Everything You Need to Know for Visiting Cinque Terre | Best Places to Visit, Top Things to See and Do in Cinque Terre, Italy

Situated amidst one the most dramatic settings on the planet, the ingeniously constructed isolated hamlets of Cinque Terre (pronounced as Cheen-kweh Ter-reh), or "Five Lands," with no automobiles, winding lanes, seemingly impregnable cliff sides, perfectly preserved architecture, a network of stunning mountain trails, and a 19th-century railway line cutting through a series of coastal tunnels connecting the villages can spellbind even the most adept of eyes.