Manarola

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Manarola and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• The Cinque Terre Express13 min walk1.1 km
• Riomaggiore14 min walk1.2 km
• Corniglia & the Lardarina steps24 min walk2.0 km
• Pesto & Ligurian cooking14 min taxi4.6 km
• Vernazza14 min taxi4.7 km
• The Sentiero Azzurro coastal trail18 min taxi5.9 km
• A boat along the villages22 min taxi7.2 km
• Monterosso al Mare (beach)22 min taxi7.3 km
• Monterosso beach22 min taxi7.3 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 3.The Manarola sunset view — The most famous view in the Cinque Terre — from the cemetery path and the Nessun Dorma terrace above Manarola, the rainbow houses stack up from the rocky inlet with vineyards behind, glowing at sunset. Get there early evening with a spritz, watch the light turn gold, and see the village lights come on; unmissable.
• 8.The Via dell'Amore — The 'Path of Love' — a short, easy, paved clifftop walkway between Riomaggiore and Manarola, carved into the rock just above the sea and hung with lovers' padlocks. Long closed by rockfalls and now reopened in stages, it's the gentlest and most romantic of the trails; check it's open, and walk it at golden hour.
• 16.Sunset aperitivo — The evening ritual — a chilled glass of local white or an Aperol spritz as the sun drops behind the cliffs, best from the rocks at Manarola or Riomaggiore or a Vernazza harbour table. The day-trippers are gone, the light turns pink on the houses, and the villages are at their most magical; the moment to linger.