1. Cinque : The number five in cards or dice.

2. Cinque Terre, Riviera is a very popular tourist city in Italy.

3. Torna in campo dopo cinque mesi e si vede: in difesa porta grande ordine.

4. Far from the madding crowds of Amalfi and Cinque Terre, the Italian peninsula of Gargano sits on the Adriatic and boasts a checklist of summer-perfect Italian holiday options.

5. A last view of the Cinque Torre, and we went down with the cable - car again.

6. The tour begins in Genoa, and proceeds along the Ligurian coast to the five hidden coastal villages of the Cinque Terre.

7. A full week would be better, allowing decent stopovers in Marseille, Nice, La Spezia (for an offshoot railway jaunt to the Cinque Terre coastal villages) and Pisa.

8. We passed by this hut on the back of the Cinque Torre.