The Cinque Terre (Five Lands) is a special section of five inlets and villages between terraced cliffs on the southern edge of the Ligurian Riviera of northwestern Italy. This is the town of Vernassa with the fourteenth-century church of St Margaret of Antioch. Terraced vineyards extend in the background on the upper left behind the vineyards, and outside the church are foundations of rock and stone down into the sea, a unique feature found elsewhere only in Venice.

View of special cliffs immediately south of the Cinque Terre (Five Lands) from a ferry in the Gulf of the Poets (Golfo dei Poeti).

Beach of Monterosso, northernmost village of the Ligurian Riviera's Cinque Terre in northwestern Italy.

Riomaggiore, southernmost town in Cinque Terre region of Italy. Multi-layered houses of twelfth-century Riomaggiore. Like several Cinque Terre towns, Riomaggiore's houses extend from ocean level up to the cliffs.

Lovers’ Walk. This is a special path along the lower level of the cliffs between the two southernmost villages of the Cinque Terre. Gulf of the Poets (Golfo dei Poeti) is pictured in the background.