Widely called the most beautiful of the five, the only village with a natural harbor, a bowl of colored houses tipping down to a little piazza on the water.
The walks from here
- Monterosso → Vernazza3.5 km · ~2 hrs · Hard
- Vernazza → Corniglia3.4 km · ~2 hrs · Hard
Tap the leg on the ribbon for the full description of the walk.
Everything funnels to the harbor square and its ring of restaurants. Above it, the round Doria tower and the ruined castle that once watched for pirates; on the point, the Santa Margherita church stands with its feet almost in the sea.
Climb the Doria castle tower for a few euros, and walk up toward the Corniglia trail for the photograph everyone knows, the harbor from above.
Vernazza took the worst of the 2011 flood: on 25 October a wall of mud and debris buried the main street meters deep. The town dug itself out and rebuilt; the small height-marks are easy to miss unless you know to look.
On the map
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