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Itinerary order for Venice, Florence, Cinque Terra, & Amalfi Coast

Posted by (Eden Prairie, MN, USA) on

My husband and I are going to Italy in May and I'm finalizing our itinerary. One question I have is I see on-line that Rick Steves has a note if you're traveling by train to go Venice-Cinque Terra-Florence. However in looking at the train schedules myself it looks like you could also do Venice-Florence-Cinque Terra, and this way looks like the train rides would be shorter. Anyone know why one would be preferred over the other?

After our 3rd stop we were going to go down to southern italy to the Amalfi coast and then Rome.

Thanks!

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Travelers reporting in here have done that itinerary both ways. Many like to do what your first thought was: Venice - Florence - Cinque Terre - then south, the advantage of doing it this way is it breaks up the long train ride from Venice - CT; however, a disadvantage of doing it that way is, it means a somewhat longer train ride later from CT - Rome or CT - Amalfi area, since the CT is farther away (in train time), than is Florence, from Rome and Amalfi. If you look at an online map, the reasons for this will be more clear. Either way has worked for travelers here. If we voted on it here, your initial instinct of Venice - Florence - CT - then south would probably get more than half the votes.

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