Review:

The only Cinque Terre village with a large beach and a waterfront promenade, Monterosso is the most popular with tourists and gets more crowded than its sister villages high up on the cliff.

The city traces its roots to 62 ancient hilltop residents of Monterosso who moved down to the coast in order to escape barbarian invaders.

There is a ruin of an old fortress up on the hill that houses the town cemetery, the spectacular Aurora tower, the San Francesco church with a magnificent Van Dyck painting, and narrow cobblestoned streets lined with old stone houses so Italian and so ancient you can almost imagine people passing through the area centuries ago.

Monterosso has a large modern hotel and a new contemporary part of the village on the other side of the Aurora tower.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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