Italy Manarola in the evening, Cinque Terre
I just love this amazing place with all these colorful buildings. If you haven't been there, this is in my opinion a place you should see and feel in your lifetime.
My advice: Try to get there in spring or autumn to avoid a bulk of tourists and if you decided to walk along the high coast of Cinque Terre (what you really should do!) the temperatures are maybe not that high as if you would be there in summer.
My advice: Try to get there in spring or autumn to avoid a bulk of tourists and if you decided to walk along the high coast of Cinque Terre (what you really should do!) the temperatures are maybe not that high as if you would be there in summer.
Photography Tips
A must have for this spot is a tripod. There is a handrail you could use to stabilize your camera a little bit, but normally all those tourists are shaking it quite a lot. The reason I say that you need a tripod is because the best time to be there is during sunrise / sunset or blue hour, because you get this beautiful contrast between these colorful buildings and the blue of the sky and the ocean. It's also the perfect place for longtime exposures with a ND filter, especially when it's a little bit stormy and the waves smash into the cliffs.
Travel Information
You have to get there by train or by foot, if you want to hike from city to city in the Cinque Terre, because there are no cars allowed.
My advice: Leave your car in Levanto (north of the Cinque Terre - I marked the parking place on the map where I left my car) and get the train to Monterosso (attention: you should look for departures on the web because sometimes they only depart just once every hour). That's the first beautiful town you should see and start your trip. You can walk along the high coast to the other places and it's really worth it, but you have to be sporty.
My advice: Leave your car in Levanto (north of the Cinque Terre - I marked the parking place on the map where I left my car) and get the train to Monterosso (attention: you should look for departures on the web because sometimes they only depart just once every hour). That's the first beautiful town you should see and start your trip. You can walk along the high coast to the other places and it's really worth it, but you have to be sporty.
Crowd Factor
Lots of people
Best Timing
Sunset & blue hour/nighttime
Sunrise & Sunset
05:40 - 20:56
| current local time: 00:34
Photo Themes
colorful
colorful buildings
Ocean
Port
viewpoint
Locations
Manarola
Cinque Terre
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