Just a few hours south of France and designated as a World Heritage Site by the’UNESCO, the Cinque Terre is set against a rugged and steep landscape that is absolutely extraordinary. Victims of their own success, Italian officials announced that they would take steps to protect these impressive cliffside villages (source: the British daily newspaper The Guardian).
Starting this summer, visitors who want to set foot there will need to plan ahead. In fact, Cinque Terre will limit From now on, the number of tourists annual.
The group of five small villages The area known as Cinque Terre is one of the most popular in the country, but in that sense, it is, in a way, a victim of its own popularity. As a result, the annual number of visitors will be set at 1.5 million. That number may seem high, but it is well below the 2.5 million visitors recorded in 2015.
Cinque Terre is thus joining a growing list of destinations that are trying to limit the number of visitors tourism in their territory in order to preserve their heritage as well as the local culture. The Machu Picchu, in Peru, for example, limits the number of daily visitors.
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