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Alternatives to the Cinque Terre: the rest of the Ligurian coast, town by town

35 towns · 1 region · the complete list

Lerici, Liguria

The Cinque Terre are five villages on a stretch of coast that has about forty more of them. The trains that carry people to Vernazza go straight through towns that look the same from the water and have room in them at lunchtime.

Here is the whole Ligurian coast in our catalogue with the five taken out: 35 towns from Ventimiglia's hinterland to Portovenere. Portofino is left in, because it is a working harbour and its own kind of answer. Best-recognised first; use the box for a name.

35 towns

✷ We've been
Lerici
Province: La Spezia · 10 m
1h from Vernazza by car
A fishing harbour under a Pisan-Genoese castle, with the frazione of Tellaro hanging over the rocks at the commune's southern edge.
Finale Ligure
Province: Savona · 12 m
2h 40m from Vernazza by car
Three boroughs on the Gulf of Genoa, a walled inland seat set back from two coastal quarters below a karst limestone circuit.
Borgio Verezzi
Province: Savona · 30 m
2h 37m from Vernazza by car
Two villages joined under one comune in 1933: Borgio on the coast below, Verezzi on the pink-stone hill above.
Arenzano
Province: Genova · 12 m
2h 19m from Vernazza by car
A coastal town twenty kilometers west of Genova where two-thirds of the territory climbs into the Parco del Beigua and peaks above a thousand meters.
Diano
Province: Imperia · 70 m
3h 3m from Vernazza by car
A twin destination on the Riviera dei Fiori: a medieval hilltop borgo above and a beach resort below, sharing one bay and one olive valley.
Framura
Province: La Spezia · 76 m
53m from Vernazza by car
Five hamlets between sea level and 300 meters on the Riviera di Levante, with Byzantine watchtowers built against Saracen incursions.
Noli
Province: Savona · 4 m
2h 27m from Vernazza by car
The fifth Italian maritime republic from 1192 to 1797, a walled coastal town with the Romanesque basilica of San Paragorio outside its gates.
Laigueglia
Province: Savona · 6 m
2h 55m from Vernazza by car
A former coral-fishing village on the Riviera di Ponente, with a curved Baroque parish church and a fishermen's grid of caruggi behind the beach.
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Ameglia
Province: La Spezia · 89 m
1h 7m from Vernazza by car
A hilltop borgo at 89 meters above the mouth of the Magra, the Lunigiana edge of Liguria where the river meets the Gulf of Poets.
Celle Ligure
Province: Savona · 5 m
2h 10m from Vernazza by car
A Riviera di Ponente beach town with kilns firing since the 1600s and a ceramic on its parish church façade.

The rest of the 35

11.Moneglia1h 10m from Vernazza by car · GENOVA
12.Portovenere53m from Vernazza by car · LA SPEZIA
13.Levanto36m from Vernazza by car · LA SPEZIA
14.Cervo2h 58m from Vernazza by car · IMPERIA
15.Cipressa3h 16m from Vernazza by car · IMPERIA
16.Deiva Marina58m from Vernazza by car · LA SPEZIA
17.Dolceacqua3h 42m from Vernazza by car · IMPERIA
18.Taggia3h 26m from Vernazza by car · IMPERIA

Lerici

Finale Ligure

Borgio Verezzi

Arenzano

Diano

Framura

Noli

Laigueglia

Ameglia

Celle Ligure

The rest of the 35

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