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Travel from Bergen Norway to Cinque Terre Italy (fall 2022)

My husband and I plan to travel from Bergen to Cinque Terre in Sept. Seeking advice on two decisions:
1. what's the best town to stay to explore 5 towns AND neighboring costal resorts such as Porto Venere and Portofino? We will have 3 nights in CT. Our original plan was Monterossa but I also read that La Sepzia is most convenient for train connections.

2. which airport (Genoa? Milan? Pisa?) offers the most direct (no transfer) train route to either La Spepzia? Monterossa?

Many thanks in advance.

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  1. La Spezia is a former Navy base with zero appeal to tourists. Not an ugly town, but it's nothing special.
  2. None, you must always take either a train (MXP) or a bus (Genoa) or a monorail (Pisa) to the closest railway hub. The five villages in the Cinque Terre are tiny, anyway if you can transfer for miles in airports you can transfer for yards in train stations.

You may find trenitalia.com a little easier to use if you use the right spelling in the "TO" box: Monterosso and La Spezia Centrale.