The Italian Riviera Travel Guide
- Overview
- Itineraries
- Places to Explore
- Sights
- Restaurants
- Hotels
- Entertainment
- Shopping
- Travel Tips
- Features
- Fodor's Choice
- Deals
- Italian Phrases
- Guidebooks
Guidebooks
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Like the family jewels that bedeck its habitual visitors, the Italian Riviera is glamorous, but in the old-fashioned way. The resort towns and coastal villages that stake intermittent claim on the rocky shores of the Ligurian Sea are the long-lost cousins of newer seaside paradises found elsewhere.
The Italian Riviera Hotels
Liguria's lodging options may be a step behind such resort areas as Positano and Taormina, so reservations for its better accommodations, and limited ones...read more
Fodor's Choice
The Italian Riviera Restaurants
Ligurian cuisine might surprise you. As you'd expect given the long coastline, it employs all sorts of seafood, but the real claim to fame is the exemplary...read more
Things To Do in The Italian Riviera
Explore the best sights, entertainment, and shopping with our top choices and insider tips.
Travel Deals in The Italian Riviera
- $2517* & up -- Business Class to Europe in Summer, R/T w/Tax Air France
- $2289 -- Italy: Three Cities with Guide thru Spring Sceptre Tours
- $2999 -- Suite on 7-Night Luxury European Cruise, $950 Off Regent Seven Seas Cruises
- 15% Off -- Car Rentals throughout Europe Alamo Rent A Car
The Italian Riviera Experiences
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Walking the Cinque Terre: Hike the famous Cinque Terre trails past gravity-defying vineyards, rock-perched villages, and the deep blue sea.... Read more
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You may have known Genoa primarily for its salami or its brash explorer, but the city's most direct effect on your life away from Italy may be... Read more
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