travel_4_food

What is it? Should I go there when I'm in Venice? Can I enjoy it all in one day?

gailscout

Do you mean Cinque? No and No.

travel_4_food

Yes, that's what I meant, but I heard great things?

Rastaguytoday

Did you actually do some research or are you listening to rumors and innuendos?

travel_4_food

Rick Steves said it is beautiful and away from tourists.

Andrew

Right, no tourists in Quince Terre at all. But the Cinque Terre is mobbed with them.

greg

But, Quince Terre sounds so yummy.

Rubicund

It's right over on the other coast from Venice and too far for a day trip. It's a collection of villages that you walk between and IMHO much overrated.

Not worth the trip from Venice.

mjdh1957

And it will be full of tourists clutching their Rick Steves guidebooks.

adrienne

Why would you want to go to Cinque Terre if you don't know what it is and can't spell the name of the town so you'd never find your way there anyway.

It would take you the entire day to get there from Venice so you'd leave Venice very early, drive or take a train to Cinque Terre, take a look and turn around to go back to Venice.

Yes you can enjoy it in a day but you can't do that from Venice.

I suggest a map and a guide book for further exploration of Italy.

tdyls

Without some of the snarkiness:

Venice - Cinque Terre is about 5 hours each way by train. It's infeasible to go down and back in 1 day.

It has been overrun by tourists for at least the past 10 years, all due to Rick Steves claiming that it's not on the tourist trail. Maybe in 1993 that was true. Maybe in January it's true.