Cinque Terre

American  

[ching-kwee ter-ey, cheeng-kwe ter-re] / ˈtʃɪŋ kwi ˈtɛr eɪ, ˈtʃiŋ kwɛ ˈtɛr rɛ /

noun

1. a group of five coastal villages Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.

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Example Sentences

We were going to take a train from there to Cinque Terre, while other passengers planned to visit Florence.

From The Wall Street Journal

Afterwards, travel south to the Cinque Terre villages to enjoy more Liguruan delicacies on the coast.

From National Geographic

In 1987, Linda Keenan brought Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” with her on vacation to Cinque Terre in Italy.

From Washington Post

Diving into the same Cinque Terre waters where they reveled in their youthful escapades before the tides of life pulled them apart, the duo came full circle.

From Los Angeles Times

Formative, and transformative, their kinship endured, though in physical absentia, even after their splendid summer days of boyhood buoyancy in the Cinque Terre region ended.

From Los Angeles Times