Vernazza is a town with only 1.000 inhabitants, one of the five that make up the Cinque Terre region, a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997, because "the layout and disposition of the small towns and the shaping of the surrounding landscape, overcoming the disadvantages of a steep, uneven terrain, encapsulate the continuous history of human settlement in this region over the past millennium." Part of its charm lies in the fact that the villages are connected only by paths, trains and boats, and the cars cannot reach them from the outside.
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