Riomaggiore Travel Guide

 Henrik_rrb Says:  High above most of the village is the old fortress, il Castello. Two towers with a small wall between them, which nowadays is used more for exhibitions and meetings. And to get a great view over the Riomaggiore. The first tower was built in the 200s, to protect the villages... 

 Henrik_rrb Says:  Riomaggiore and the rest of the villages in Cinque Terre is flooded with tourists. We were hoping to avoid the worst rush by being there early in the season, but apparently we weren't the only one with that idea… In any case it's wonderful to just walk around in the small... 

 goodfish Says:  The lower end of main street (Via Colombo) leads to the ferry dock, a tiny swimming beach, and serves as launch/storage/repair area for little fishing dinghies. This is one of the best spots for photos of the “case torri” that tumble down the steep hillsides, and there’s a... 

 goodfish Says:  By the time we’d reached our last of the five villages we were pretty much burnt out on churches (some of which seemed to be closed anyway) and whatnot so our few hours in Riomaggiore were spent just pottering through narrow carruggi (alleys), up and down shadowy stairways,... 

 goodfish Says:  High up on the righthand of the two hills (as you’re facing the water) that separate the town is the restored ruin of a 13th-century fortification whose curtain walls and double towers once kept citizens safe from pirate raids. Sea-going hooligans being a continual source of... 

 goodfish Says:  (Lifted from my Manarola pages) Everyone else has written about this silly thing but what’s one more review, eh? The section of the Blue Trail (Sentiero Azzurro, #2 on a CT trail map) that runs between Riomaggiore and Manarola is more pedestrian highway than hiking path. It... 

 riorich55 Says:  If anything would come close to a "Tourist Trap" in this lovely little area of Italy it could possibly be the Via dell'Amore the walk of love. But like a lot of other frequently visited sites if you are there you will probably do it. Sue and I had walked above the city... 

 riorich55 Says:  152 years before Columbus discovered Americas the original San Giovanni Battista was built on the hillside in what now is the upper part of Riomaggiore. The current facade of the church that you see today was widened in 1870 and partially rebuilt in Neogothic style.Although... 

 riorich55 Says:  As we continued are hike above Riomaggiore we finally came upon a road probably about 2/3 of the way to the very top. The original intent of the hike had been to go up to see a small chapel high above Riomaggiore, but upon seeing the steepness of the final 1/3 up to the very... 

 Henrik_rrb Says:  On a warm spring day this is the most popular place in the whole Riomaggiore. The local gelato guy made big business when we were there, but considering how the ice cream tasted there is no reason to wonder why.We had one big cup each, and could choose from quite a number of... 

 Henrik_rrb Says:  A very nice restaurant situated on the main street of Riomaggiore. Unlike most other restaurants/bars in the village there is no possibility to sit outside, which suited us perfect on this rainy day. Most of the menu consist of different seafood options and my wife and I... 

 Henrik_rrb Says:  Great takeaway restaurant in the central parts of Riomaggiore. Very friendly service staff who gave us a discount already on our second visit. We had freshly fried calamari in a cone on our first visit, and then a mixed bread, straight from the oven, on our second visit.... 

 riorich55 Says:  Our 2012 Riomaggiore trip we only had a single night in the Cinque Terre area and thus couldn't venture too far from our home base of Riomaggiore. After arriving shortly before noon and taking several walks around Riomaggiore and Manarola we headed back to our bed and... 

 riorich55 Says:  After hiking around for a couple of hours and before continuing on our future hiking journeys I needed a little bit of food to continue the trek. Sue had her Italian style pizza a few days earlier in Tivoli, so I needed to try my hand at it. So as we walked down through town... 

 goodfish Says:  From approximately the beginning of April to the end of October, ferries are an alternate way of reaching most of the Cinque Terre villages and many others along the Ligurian coast including Portofino, Levanto and La Spezia. They’re not as fast or as inexpensive as the local... 

 riorich55 Says:  In the Cinque Terre region and I'm sure in other hill towns throughout Italy you should be sure that you do not venture across the Yellow Line by the train tracks until your train has come to a complete stop and you are ready to board. In our short visit to Riomaggiore we...