Monterosso al Mare

City Cinque Terre, Italy

In one of the most suggestive gulfs in the world lies the largest and oldest village of the Cinque Terre, Monterosso al Mare. The country is divided into two parts: the old city and the new one.

Both in the old village and in Fegina, the most touristic part, Monterosso al Mare boasts important monuments. Among these are the fourteenth-century and fascinating church of San Giovanni Battista; of great importance, on the Cappuccini hill, the Fieschi castle and the monastery with the church dedicated to San Francesco In Fegina, not to be missed are Villa Montale, where the Nobel Prize for Literature stayed, and the imposing statue of the Giant, built in the early 20th century which originally supported a shell-shaped terrace on its shoulders.