Ninety seconds on Corniglia
The only one of the five with no harbour, set about a hundred metres up on a headland and reached from its station by a staircase of 382 steps. It is the quietest of them.
A fourteenth-century church in Ligurian Gothic, carrying a rose window carved from Carrara marble that is the finest in the Cinque Terre. It sits at the village's highest point. It stands a few steps from the village square and the interior behind the window is plain.
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The second smallest of the five and the most photographed, its houses stacked above a cove with no beach.
The best natural harbour on this coast and, by most accounts, the prettiest of the five villages.
The three mountains share a pass but few lifts, so spend each day on one.
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