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The five villages named "Cinque Terre" on the Riviera Ligure/ Rivira di Levante in Italy are spectacular: the houses are built on very high rocks - at the time when there were no cranes! Travelling by train from Genoa to La Spezia you can enjoy the view on Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore. Foto: Slobodan Ilic, July 2002 (slobodan.ilic@bluewin.ch) Upload: Aleksandar Salatic (asalat@mail.ru)

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The spectacular single-track seashore railway line Genova - Ventimiglia between Finale Ligure Marina and Borgio Verezzi. The railway line is directly on the seashore; the train brings you directly to the beaches. This line is one of the most spectacular railway lines in the world. In a few years it will be closed and replaced by a duble track tunnel railway. Photo: Slobodan Ilic (slobodan.ilic@bluewin.ch), 01.05.2008

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The spectacular single-track seashore railway line Genova - Ventimiglia between Andora and Cervo-San Bartolomeo, very close to Diano Marina on the West Ligurian Coast (Riviera di Ponente Ligure). The railway line is directly on the seashore; the train brings you directly to the beaches. This line is one of the most spectacular railway lines in the world. In a few years it will be closed and replaced by a duble track tunnel railway. Photo: Slobodan Ilic (slobodan.ilic@bluewin.ch), 01.05.2008

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The spectacular single-track seashore railway line Genova - Ventimiglia between Andora and Cervo-San Bartolomeo, very close to Diano Marina on the West Ligurian Coast (Riviera di Ponente Ligure). The railway line is directly on the seashore; the train brings you directly to the beaches. This line is one of the most spectacular railway lines in the world. In a few years it will be closed and replaced by a duble track tunnel railway. Photo: Slobodan Ilic (slobodan.ilic@bluewin.ch), 01.05.2008

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The spectacular single-track seashore railway line Genova - Ventimiglia between Andora and Cervo-San Bartolomeo, very close to Diano Marina on the West Ligurian Coast (Riviera di Ponente Ligure). The railway line is directly on the seashore; the train brings you directly to the beaches. This line is one of the most spectacular railway lines in the world. In a few years it will be closed and replaced by a duble track tunnel railway. Die faszinierende einspurige Küstenstrecke Genua - Ventimiglia zwischen Andora und Cervo-San Bartolomeo, sehr nahe zu Diano Marina, an der Westligurischen Küste (Riviera di Ponente Ligure). Die Bahnlinie liegt direkt an der Küste, nur wenige Meter vom Meer entfernt. Die Geräusche der Meerwellen sowie der Möwen begleiten Sie bei der Bahnfahrt. Der Zug bringt Sie direkt zum Strand. Diese Bahnlinie ist eine der faszinierenden Bahnstrecken der Welt. In einigen Jahren wird sie stillgelegt, demontiert und durch doppelspurige Tunnelbahn sehr tief im Hinterland und sehr weit weg vom Meer und den Dörfern und Städten ersetzt. Foto: Slobodan Ilic (slobodan.ilic@bluewin.ch), 01.05.2008

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This pedestrian way in the Grödnertal (Val Gardena) in Südtirol (Alto Adige) is the former railway line of the valley. From Klausen (Chiusa) on the Brenner line (mainline between Austria and Italy) it ran on the north side of the valley to St. Ulrich (Ortisei). From there it more or less followed the bottom of the valley towards Plan, a place at the upper end of Wolkenstein (Selva Gardena). It was an adhesion railway with 760 mm gauge, and it was never electrified. It was built in 1915, during the first world war, when it was urgently needed to bring goods to Plan (from where a network of aerial cableways transported them to the front line). Operation was stopped in 1960. Picture taken between St. Christina and Wolkenstein (looking upwards) on 26 February 2004. Digital photo by Christoph Schmitz (christoph.schmitz2@post.rwth-aachen.de)