The Cinque Terre is known around the world and visited every year by an increasingly high flow of tourists, who flock from the trains in the small streets of its villages perched on the mountains and overlooking the sea. But the Cinque Terre area is not only made by the coast, the so ancient villages take their origin in the hinterland and its peasant culture, the one of the Val di Vara, and even further up to the culture of the Lunigiana. It is the historical area that in most ancient times was dominated by the Ligurian and Apuan Celts.

The most typical features of the five villages can be found throughout the whole marine area, extending to the Gulf of La Spezia, (the Gulf of the Poets), with the enchanting Lerici and Portovenere, while its small archipelago with the largest island of Liguria hides the surprise of pristine and fierce nature and ancient history.