Cinque Terre – Portovenere Town
We boarded the first boat and traveled north up the coast to the next town, Portovenere. Although not properly the Cinque Terre yet, this was my favorite of the steep little hill towns perched on the edge of the coastal mountains above the sea. It is also a UNESCO World Heritge site. There is another wonderful fortress with a medieval church at one end, a beautiful church in the center, and a row of the tallest, skinniest most brightly colored houses that I've seen anywhere in Italy. As has been the case in most of the places we've visited, the streets are stone. But here, they are smooth pavers rather than cobbles, and very steep. So steep, in fact, that many could be reached only by steep flights of stairs. The first group of pictures are of the town itself.
We boarded the first boat and traveled north up the coast to the next town, Portovenere. Although not properly the Cinque Terre yet, this was my favorite of the steep little hill towns perched on the edge of the coastal mountains above the sea. It is also a UNESCO World Heritge site. There is another wonderful fortress with a medieval church at one end, a beautiful church in the center, and a row of the tallest, skinniest most brightly colored houses that I've seen anywhere in Italy. As has been the case in most of the places we've visited, the streets are stone. But here, they are smooth pavers rather than cobbles, and very steep. So steep, in fact, that many could be reached only by steep flights of stairs. The first group of pictures are of the town itself.
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