Monterosso al Mare, Italy Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Tucked into a bay on the east side of the jutting headland of Punta Mesco, MONTEROSSO is the chief village of the Cinque Terre. It's also the largest of the five – population 1800 – and most developed, with the modern beach resort of Fegina occupying the shore just west of the old village. Beaches, both free and toll, are broad and picturesque; they're separated from the narrow lanes of the old quarter by a hill, atop which is the seventeenth-century Convento dei Cappuccini . In the centre of the old village is the striped thirteenth-century church of San Giovanni Battista . Monterosso's … more »