Cinque terre, holidays in Corniglia

At 100 meters above sea level, Corniglia is made up of terraces planted with wine and olive trees, which overlook the coast.

To reach it you have to go down more than 350 steps from the station but its beach is the largest of the Cinque Terre and its wine (the "Cornelia" and the "Vernaccia di Cornelia" ), is famous since the dawn of time and even mentioned by Boccaccio .

To see in Corniglia

Despite the Spiaggione , Corniglia is a village of land rather than sea, its houses are not climbed on the rock like those of the other Cinque Terre but they look more like those of a rural village, positioned as they are along the main road.

Due to its difficult to reach position (you have to face the stairway called Lardarina , (33 ramps and 377 steps), Corniglia has been preserved from mass tourism, and is also the least touristy of these lands.

Important and very beautiful is the Church of San Pietro from 1334, built in two stages. In particular, the rose window in white Carrara marble, the work of the masters from Campione, houses the emblem of the city, the deer, an emblem chosen, perhaps, precisely because of the belonging of the village to the rural world.