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and eventually Portofino

Driving times:
Livorno to Cinque Terre: 1hr 30'

Cinque Terre to Portofino: 45'

Portofino to Livorno: 45'

The rates include:

VAT (value added tax 10%), 9 hours of touring in the requested vehicle conducted by experienced driving guide.
Each additional hour will be charged 1/9 of the total of the tour's rate.

Rates do not include:
Entrance fees, meals, drinks, personal purchases or anything not specifically listed as included.

and eventually Portofino

You'll meet your driving guide at the port at 8:00 or 8:30 a.m. and head for the Cinque Terre -The Five Lands-, these are five mediaeval fisherman ports, all disposed along a 5-7 miles gulf, which developed isolated through the ages as they could only be reached by sea. They feature an intact architecture and unbelievable landscapes.

You'll reach Riomaggiore, the first of the five towns and walk through it to get on the "Via dell'Amore" -Walkway of Love- a famous and romantic easy walkway carved along the cliffs which will take you to the second town, Manarola, in about 15/20 minutes.

From Manarola you can take the train or the boat, unless you want to hike the mountain path, to Vernazza, the 4th of the Five Lands. This is considered the most picturesque of the towns and you should be getting there in time to have your lunch in one of its typical restaurants. This itinerary has to be very flexible, not everyone wants to do the same thing; some people want their driving guide to stay with them and as they go by boat or train to the next towns, others instead prefer to go on their own and be met at the last one of the Five Lands, Monterosso al Mare. This way they can save time and include a visit of Portofino or the Marble Quarries of Carrara in the day's trip.

After you get back to the car, either returning to where you had parked it if your driving guide goes with you or meeting him in Monterosso, in the afternoon you will drive to the world famous Marble Quarries of Carrara. You'll see mountains that are entirely made of this snow-white pure material, driving on roads carved into the

Marble itself, you will enter the Quarries, where the views you will have are absolutely breath-taking. These are the quarries where Michelangelo used to spend a lot of time at looking for the special block of marble that already had the statue in it!

Since Portofino is the furthest of the all the places, those who want to visit it should drive there first and then go to to the Cinque Terre. It would be instead rather easy to stop at the Quarries on the way back to the ship when leaving the Cinque Terre area early enough for it. Normally you don't have the time to go to both places: Portofino and the quarries.

Return to the ship at about 5:30 p.m.