With just one beach, at Monterosso, the Cinque Terre's craggy coast may not suit those who ... Ripley's mates desperately dazzling each other down in Amalfi. The Italian Riviera rules.

It offers all the beauty of Liguria’s Cinque Terre or the Amalfi Coast, but without crowds and with decent places to say from just €60 (£50). To the Greeks, this was Magna Graecia – Great ...

But perhaps the greatest experience in Tuscany is discovering the many medieval hilltop towns scattered through the ...