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Cinque Terre’s Path of Love reopens with charges to ease Insta-tourism



Visitors will need to pay up to €15 to stroll – and take photos – along romantic 900-metre walkway in Liguria, ItalyStifling though the crowds of tourists can be at the height of summer, a hint of love is in the air across the five villages of Italy’s Cinque Terre as a Ligurian riviera coastal path famed as a meeting point for courting couples reopens after an almost 12-year closure.Sculpted into the steep cliffs wedged between the villages of Riomaggiore and Manarola, the Via dell’Amore (Path of Love) had been closed since being damaged by a September 2012 landslide that injured four Australian tourists. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/27/cinque-terres-path-of-love-reopens-with-charges-to-ease-insta-tourism

Author : Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Publish date : 2024-07-27 09:00:19

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