Things to do
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Spiaggia di Fegina
The longest sand beach in the Cinque Terre, in the newer half of Monterosso west of the headland, mostly laid out with hired loungers and umbrellas. It is the only one of the five villages where a beach day genuinely works.
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Statua del Gigante
A fourteen-metre Neptune in reinforced concrete, built into the rock at the end of Fegina beach in 1910 to hold up the terrace of a villa. Wartime damage and storms took his arms and trident. It stands at the far end of the sand and is reached along the promenade.
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Torre Aurora
A sixteenth-century defensive tower on the headland between the two halves of Monterosso, one of thirteen built along this coast against Saracen raids. It now houses a bar and the view is the reason to go up. The tunnel under the headland links the two halves of the town below it.
