Cruise Line |
Silversea Cruises |
Ship |
Silver Moon |
Destination |
EU Mediterranean |
Nights |
12 |
Departure Date |
22 Apr 2021 |
Description |
12 Night Cruise sailing from Venice to Athens aboard Silver Moon.
Set sail for a taste experience in one of the world most flavoursome regions. The S.A.L.T. Bar, Kitchen and Lab – exclusive to Silver Moon – will take you on an interactive tour of Italy, Croatia, Greece and Tukey, where you can sample the flavours and local food heritage that makes the eastern Med so unique. Get set to soak up the history – culinary or otherwise - of a region that is more than a sum of its parts.
Highlights of this cruise:
Venice
Venice is a city unlike any other. No matter how often you've seen it in photos and films, the real thing is more dreamlike than you could imagine. With canals where streets should be, water shimmers everywhere. The fabulous palaces and churches reflect centuries of history in what was a wealthy trading center between Europe and the Orient. Getting lost in the narrow alleyways is a quintessential part of exploring Venice, but at some point you'll almost surely end up in Piazza San Marco, where tourists and locals congregate for a coffee or an aperitif.
Split
Bathing in the Dalmatian Coast’s generous sunshine, and overlooking sparkling, island-studded waters, Split is a city of romantic beauty, built around an extraordinary - still beating - historical heart. The setting may be spectacular, but it’s the Diocletian’s Palace - a Roman remain of incredible scale and detail that is truly bewitching. While immensely historic, Split hasn’t been afraid to move with the times, and the stone walls encasing the streets are alive with buzzy bars and quiet nooks, where bottles of red wine are uncorked and delicious meals devoured. With a natural backdrop of dramatic limestone mountains, and Croatia’s trademark scenic wonders all around, Split is a true heavyweight of the Adriatic. To enter Split’s Diocletian’s Palace is to step into a beautiful time warp. Head first to the Cathedral of Saint Domnius, where a hollow bell tower rockets up, puncturing the sky. The palace’s cellars can shelter you from a little of the heat and give space for everything from wine festivals to souvenir stalls. The perfume of lavender hangs heavy wherever you walk in the old town, where tucked shops offer artisan chocolates, dried figs and freshly-ground coffees. The expansive seafront promenade is all palm trees, buzzing bars and eateries, and further out you’ll find the peace of Marion Hill - where you can climb to some of the best views in town. Or, take the far less exerting wander to Sustipan cemetery’s breathtaking panorama of sea, city and distant islands. Trips to island paradises like Hvar and Brac are tempting, as are longer excursions to sites like Krka National Park’s Waterfalls - where wide terraces of frothing water thunder into cooling, swimmable splash pools below. Nearby Trogir is another UNESCO World Heritage Site, offering a cosier, no less charming old town and historic port.
Rhodes
Early travelers described Rhodes as a town of two parts: a castle or high town (Collachium) and a lower city. Today Rhodes town—sometimes referred to as Ródos town—is still a city of two parts: the Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site that incorporates the high town and lower city, and the modern metropolis, or New Town, spreading away from the walls that encircle the Old Town.
Athens
It's no wonder that all roads lead to the fascinating and maddening metropolis of Athens. Lift your eyes 200 feet above the city to the Parthenon, its honey-color marble columns rising from a massive limestone base, and you behold architectural perfection that has not been surpassed in 2,500 years. But, today, this shrine of classical form dominates a 21st-century boomtown. To experience Athens—AthÃna in Greek—fully is to understand the essence of Greece: ancient monuments surviving in a sea of cement, startling beauty amid the squalor, tradition juxtaposed with modernity. |
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Itinerary |
Cruise Itinerary
Day | Date | Activity | Arrive | Depart |
1 |
22/04 |
Venice, Italy |
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07:00 PM |
2 |
23/04 |
Split, Croatia |
12:00 PM |
11:00 PM |
3 |
24/04 |
Dubrovnik, Croatia |
08:00 AM |
06:00 PM |
4 |
25/04 |
Corfu, Greece |
09:00 AM |
10:00 PM |
5 |
26/04 |
Argostoli, Greece |
08:00 AM |
03:00 PM |
6 |
27/04 |
Souda Bay, Greece |
09:00 AM |
06:00 PM |
7 |
28/04 |
Rhodes, Greece |
09:00 AM |
07:00 PM |
8 |
29/04 |
At sea |
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9 |
30/04 |
Istanbul, Turkey |
08:00 AM |
overnight |
10 |
01/05 |
Istanbul, Turkey |
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03:00 PM |
11 |
02/05 |
Dikili, Turkey |
08:00 AM |
06:00 PM |
12 |
03/05 |
Kusadasi, Turkey |
08:00 AM |
06:00 PM |
13 |
04/05 |
Athens (Piraeus) Greece |
08:00 AM |
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All itineraries and ports of call at the discretion of the cruise line subject to local weather conditions and may change without notice.
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