Italian Jewels on the sea – 40 spectacular villages on the Mediterranean Sea

From Liguria to Tuscany to Sicily, tens of little villages, of ancient flavor, perched on cliffs over the blue waters; once inhabited only by fishermen but now tourist destination for the travelers in search of coziness.

There are the CinqueTerre, Otranto in Puglia, Bosa in Sardinia, some of them so fascinating to be chosen by Unesco as World Heritage Site

Some villages are very old, others more recent, many with colorful little houses like Burano in the Venice Lagoon, others with lines of bright white houses.

Here’s a list of 40 of them that we suggest to visit at least once in a lifetime.