Our suggestions to get the famous Cinque Terre

I know that many of you wish to visit the Cinque Terre. Well, this is a very good place.

We stay just 5 km from the La Spezia RR Station and the train is the best means of reaching the Cinque Terre, it takes 8 minutes to Riomaggiore and the Via dell'Amore (Lovers Lane).

We stay also 7 km from the embarkation point of the passenger boats that in the summer visit all the towns along the Gulf of Poets and the Cinque Terre.

For those who love to walk, path no. 501 of the Cinque Terre begins at our door. This beautiful trail run in the middle of a forest, totally untouristic and it take around 2 hours to get Riomaggiore, first villagge of Cinque Terre

If you prefer to leave the car here, the city bus stop is just 350 mt from our House and the La Spezia RR Station only 10 minutes away (busses run every 40-50 minutes).

No problem with the parking in the city ( La Spezia ) most of them are free and where you have to pay it's just 50 cent per hour.

By car you can reach many places. We are 15 km from Monterosso and 20 km from Riomaggiore in the Cinque Terre. La Spezia is very close with its famous naval museum and civic museum Amedeo Lia.

Portovenere, designated by UNESCO in 1997 a World Heritage Site, is only 16 km away from our House. Lerici, with its enchanted bay and its beaches certified “Bandiera Blu” (Blue Flag) for their cleanliness is only 12 km away.

Tellaro, designated one of the 100 most beautiful small towns of Italy is 4 km from Lerici. It is a walled town dating to 1300 and built upon a cliff that can only be reached on foot (500 meters from the parking area).

Sarzana is 15 km away: the lost city of Sarzana, so named because it was never conquered, with its refined and extraordinary historical center, its antiquarians and artisans.

And then there is the Lunigiana region, with its 30 castles perfectly preserved and many still inhabited.

The Vara Valley has been called the “Organic Valley”, the first in Europe to obtain environmental certification.

And finally, but there could be more, the marble caves of Carrara, with the acclaimed “Lardo di Colonnata” (Lard of Colonnata), and the labors of man engraved in the stone.

Since 2001 the Cinque Terre National Park has adopted 2 service cards, Cinque Terre Trekking and Cinque Terre Card Trekking + Train the Cinque Terre Card Hiking and the Cinque Terre Card Hiking+Train, represents a kind of self-financing.

The proceeds of the Cinque Terre Cards are mainly aimed at the upkeep and the recovery of the territory, and to allow the transport services within the territory as well.

Cinque Terre Card Hiking:

- Access to the Park Area - Guided visits, depending on the planning

- Use of the Bus Services managed by ATC within the villages

- Use of the toilets with fee

- Participation in the workshops of the Park's Environmental Education Center, depending on the planning

- WI-FI internet connection in the Park's Hot Spots

- Reduced-price ticket to visit the Civic Museums in La Spezia (Amedeo Lia, Castello San Giorgio, CAMeC, Sigillo, Palazzina delle Arti, Etnografico, Diocesano) (Amedeo Lia, Castello San Giorgio, CAMeC, Sigillo, Palazzina delle Arti, Etnografico, Diocesano)

Cinque Terre Card Hiking + Train:

- Second class travel with the regional and fast regional trains (except for the IC/ICN/FB trains) in the route Levanto

- La Spezia (and vice versa)

- Access to the Park area

- Guided visits, depending on the planning

- Use of the Bus Services managed by ATC within the villages

- Use of the toilets with fee

- Participation in the workshops of the Park's Environmental Education Center, depending on the planning

- WI-FI internet connection in the Park's Hot Spots

- Reduced-price ticket to visit the Civic Museums in La Spezia (Amedeo Lia, Castello San Giorgio, CAMeC, Sigillo, Palazzina delle Arti, Etnografico, Diocesano)

Prices Cinque Terre Card Hiking + Train:

- Card Hiking + Train 1 day Adults: Euros 16.00

- Card Hiking + Train 2 days Adults: Euros 29.00

- Card Hiking + Train 1 day Children: Euros 10.00

- Card Hiking + Train 1 day over 70: Euros 13.00

- Card Hiking + Train 1 day Family: Euros 42.00 Cinque Terre Card Hiking:

- Card Hiking 1 day Adults: Euros 7.50

- Card Hiking 2 days Adults: Euros 14.50

- Card Hiking 1 day Children: Euros 4.50

- Card Hiking 2 days Children: Euros 7.20

- Card Hiking 1 day Silver (over 70 yrs old): Euros 6.00

- Card Hiking 2 days Silver (over 70 yrs old): Euros 10.00

- Card Hiking 1 day Family: Euros 19.60

- Card Hiking 2 days Family: Euros 31.50

- Card Hiking 1 day Groups (up to 25 participants): Euros 120.00

- Card Hiking 1 day Additional participant: Euros 5.00

Environmental quality label: delivery of the first certificates to the new members The pathway which led to the implementation of the label closed its first phase with the delivery of the certificates and related documents to the... Cinque Terre from the water.

If you prefer look at Cinque Terre from another point of view you can always take the ferry.

There are several shipping companies that offer this service, most important are: "Consorzio Navigazione Golfo Dei Poeti" and "Consorzio barcaioli Portovenere".

Here the same, you can always buy a daily ticket, " Cinque terre Card Boat", and you can visit the Cinque terre villages using the boat... all day long.

Few examples: Daily ticket The daily ticket allow you to stop in Portovenere and in all the villages of 5 Terre (Riomaggiore - Manarola - Vernazza - Monterosso) : € 35,00

Afternoon Ticket

The afternoon ticket allow you to stop for about 1 hour in aCinque Terre village: € 27,00

One way with all stops: € 27,00

La Spezia - Portovenere : € 10,00