The corkscrew two-laner from seaside San Remo to Perinaldo winds among the tiered greenhouses of the Riviera dei Fiori, the "coast of flowers." I'd only been driving half an hour, but my neck already ...

In the distance, the small medieval village of Vernazza looked like a brightly coloured jewel, glittering in the midday sunshine. Slowly, our boat idled towards the shore and the scene came more ...

LETTER FROM THE LIGURIAN RIVIERA, a resort which has had the most prosperous summer season since the end of World War I. Everyone, even the British, it seemed had plenty of money. At Ventimiglia, the ...

Last summer, things got hot in Portofino. Madonna touched down for a party at Dolce & Gabbana’s cliff-side villa, Steven Spielberg took his family there on holiday and the entire port was shut for the ...

Italy’s crescent-shaped Riviera – which arcs from the French border to Tuscany – is synonymous with the Cinque Terre (those five postcard-perfect coastal fishing villages, with brightly coloured ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Sabino is an editor and author who writes about travel. Dramatic coastal settings, richly colored houses perched with ...