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Departing on 8 Apr 2025 from aboard the MSC World Europa - Cruise No: 2159070

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Messina — Βαλέτα — Στη Θάλασσα — Barcelona — Μασσαλία — Genoa — Naples (Pompeii), Italy — Messina
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8 Apr '25
Messina
20:00

Messina may well be your first sight of Sicily, and – from your MSC holiday cruise ship – it’s a fine one, the glittering town spread up the hillside beyond its sickle-shaped Mediterranean harbour.
On a shore excursion you can discover Messina’s most important monument, the Duomo, which epitomizes the city’s phoenix-like ability to re-create itself from the ashes of its last disaster. It’s the reconstruction of a twelfth-century cathedral erected by Roger II, one of a series of great Norman churches of Sicily that include the sumptuous cathedrals of Palermo and Cefalù. The Duomo’s detached campanile, or bell tower, claims to be the largest astronomical clock in the world, and puts on its best show at noon every day, when a bronze lion (Messina’s ancient emblem) unleashes a mighty roar over the city that can be quite alarming if you’re not expecting it!
Just back from the Duomo, the truncated section of the twelfth-century Chiesa Annunziata dei Catalani squats below pavement level, and is Messina’s only surviving example of Arab/Norman church-building.
When you are cruising the Mediterranean Sea with MSC Cruises, the most obvious excursion from Messina is to the almost too charming hill town of Taormina, spectacularly located on a rocky bluff between the Ionian Sea and the soaring peak of Mount Etna, whose summit with its bleak lava wilderness is one of the most memorable landscapes Italy has to offer.
Once the beloved retreat of poets and writers, Taormina is now the most illustrious resort on the entire island, captivating its visitors with its famous ancient theatre, grand hotels and engaging small-town charm.

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9 Apr '25
Βαλέτα
09:00
17:00

Το προστατευόμενο από την UNESCO λιμάνι της Βαλέτα, πρωτεύουσα του νησιού της Μάλτας, είναι ένας από τους σταθμούς που πρέπει να επισκεφθείτε σε κάθε κρουαζιέρα στη Μεσόγειο. Μπορείτε να θαυμάσετε αυτό το λιμάνι, που κατασκευάστηκε στο δεύτερο μισό του 16ου αιώνα από τον Γάλλο Jean de la Valette και διαμορφώθηκε από το θρησκευτικό και στρατιωτικό Τάγμα του Αγίου Ιωάννη της Ιερουσαλήμ, από το πλοίο της MSC, ακόμη και πριν αποβιβαστείτε. Τα πάνω από 300 μνημεία που υψώνονται σε λίγο περισσότερο από μισό τετραγωνικό χιλιόμετρο καθιστούν αυτό το μέρος με μια από τις μεγαλύτερες πυκνότητες ιστορικών αξιοθέατων που μπορείτε να επισκεφθείτε κατά τη διάρκεια μιας κρουαζιέρας, χωρίς να αναφέρουμε άλλα αξιοθέατα, όπως οι παραλίες, τα παραθαλάσσια τοπία και τα εστιατόριά του. Μια εκδρομή στο νησί μπορεί να ξεκινήσει κατευθείαν από την πρωτεύουσά του, τη Βαλέτα, η οποία μαγεύει τον επισκέπτη της κρουαζιέρας με τα περίφημα μαλτέζικα μπαλκόνια της, τα οποία κοσμούν τις προσόψεις των σπιτιών στην παλιά συνοικία της. Περιτριγυρισμένη από ένα πλήθος εκκλησιών, οι οποίες, όπως διαβεβαιώνουν οι κάτοικοι του νησιού, είναι τόσες όσες και οι ημέρες του χρόνου, η εκκλησία St Johns Co-Cathedral είναι ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα τουριστικά αξιοθέατα της Μάλτας. Το Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο, από την άλλη πλευρά, φιλοξενεί προϊστορικά αντικείμενα που βρέθηκαν στο νησί. Δίπλα στο Μεγάλο Λιμάνι, μπορεί κανείς να επισκεφθεί τα υπόγεια περάσματα του Auberge de Castille και τους όμορφους κήπους Baracca Gardens, οι οποίοι έχουν θέα στο λιμάνι- τη νύχτα, όταν οι πύλες της πόλης έκλειναν, οι στοές του χρησίμευαν ως καταφύγιο για τους ταξιδιώτες. Για να πάρετε μια γεύση από τη ζωή των αρχαίων ευγενών της Μάλτας, επισκεφθείτε την Casa Rocca Piccola. Ένα παλάτι του 16ου αιώνα, που σήμερα αποτελεί κατοικία του 9ου Μαρκήσιου De Piro, διαθέτει επίπλωση εποχής και διαθέτει ένα καταφύγιο βόμβας που κατασκευάστηκε για προστασία από τους βομβαρδισμούς κατά τη διάρκεια του Β Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου. Το σκηνικό της ταινίας Popeye μπορεί ακόμη να το δει κανείς από τη μεγαλύτερη παραλία της Μάλτας, καθώς και το Ιερό της Παναγίας του Mellieha με μια τοιχογραφία της Παναγίας με τον Χριστό- σύμφωνα με την παράδοση, ο Άγιος Λουκάς, ο οποίος ναυάγησε στο νησί μαζί με τον Άγιο Παύλο, είναι ο δημιουργός αυτής της τοιχογραφίας βυζαντινού ρυθμού.

3
10 Apr '25
Στη Θάλασσα
4
11 Apr '25
Barcelona
08:00
18:00

One of the busiest cruise ports in the Mediterranean, the seaside city of Barcelona is known for its iconic architecture, colourful culture, and world-class drinking and dining.

Explore Antoni Gaudí’s surreal Sagrada Família, the famous boulevard of the Ramblas, the medieval Barri Gótic, and the Museu Picasso. But there’s even more to discover in this sprawling Spanish city, an MSC Mediterranean Cruises destination: from hidden tapas bars and fabulous food markets to Europe’s biggest football stadium.

5
12 Apr '25
Μασσαλία
08:00
18:00

Στη θεαματική ακτογραμμή της Γαλλικής Ριβιέρας βρίσκεται η Μασσαλία, προορισμός της MSC Mediterranean Cruises. Αυτή η ατμοσφαιρική πόλη-λιμάνι είναι γνωστή για το μοναδικό της μείγμα κακογουστιάς και αίγλης, που φαίνεται στο λαβύρινθο των δρόμων και της ιστορικής αρχιτεκτονικής της. Μόλις λίγα μίλια από τα χαρισματικά καφέ της Μασσαλίας και το πολυσύχναστο Vieux Port, βρίσκονται εκπληκτικές πόλεις. Επισκεφθείτε την Αιξ-αν-Προβάνς, γενέτειρα του Σεζάν, ή απολαύστε την αρχαία ομορφιά της Αβινιόν.

6
13 Apr '25
Genoa
08:00
16:00

Genoa is marvellously eclectic, vibrant and full of rough-edged style; it’s a great cruise excursion.

Indeed “La Superba” (The Superb), as it was known at the height of its authority as a Mediterranean superpower, boasts more zest and intrigue than all the surrounding coastal resorts put together.
During a holiday to Genoa you can explore its old town: a dense and fascinating warren of medieval alleyways home to large palazzi built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by Genoa’s wealthy mercantile families and now transformed into museums and art galleries. You should seek out the Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, the Palazzo Ducale, and the Renaissance palaces of Via Garibaldi which contain the cream of Genoa’s art collections, as well as furniture and decor from the grandest days of the city’s past, when its ships sailed to all corners of the Mediterranean Sea.

The Acquario di Genova is the city’s pride and joy, parked like a giant ocean liner on the waterfront, with seventy tanks housing sea creatures from all the world’s major habitats, including the world’s biggest reconstruction of a Caribbean coral reef. It’s a great aquarium by any standards, the second largest in Europe by capacity, and boasts a fashionably ecology-conscious slant and excellent background information in Italian and English.
Just 35 km south of Genoa, there’s no denying the appeal of Portofino, tucked into a protected inlet surrounded by lush cypress- and olive-clad slopes. It’s an A-list resort that has been attracting high-flying bankers, celebs and their hangers-on for years, as evidenced by the flotillas of giant yachts usually anchored just outside. It’s a tiny place that is attractive yet somehow off-putting at the same time, with a quota of fancy shops, bars and restaurants for a place twice its size.

7
14 Apr '25
Naples (Pompeii), Italy
13:00
20:00

Naples is a large, sprawling Mediterranean port, with a centre that has many different focuses just waiting to be discovered on an MSC Mediterranean cruise excursion.

MSC Mediterranean cruises also offer excursions to Pompeii. One of Campania’s most important Roman commercial centres – a moneyed resort for wealthy patricians and a trading town that exported wine and fish – the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 in effect froze the town’s way of life as it stood at the time.
Trips can also be taken to the island of Capri, place of legend, home to the mythical Sirens and a much-eulogized playground of the super-rich in the years since – though now it has settled down to a lucrative existence as a target for day-trippers from the mainland.

Definitely worth a visit, but these days the origins of much of the purple prose may be hard to find.

8
15 Apr '25
Messina
09:00

Messina may well be your first sight of Sicily, and – from your MSC holiday cruise ship – it’s a fine one, the glittering town spread up the hillside beyond its sickle-shaped Mediterranean harbour.
On a shore excursion you can discover Messina’s most important monument, the Duomo, which epitomizes the city’s phoenix-like ability to re-create itself from the ashes of its last disaster. It’s the reconstruction of a twelfth-century cathedral erected by Roger II, one of a series of great Norman churches of Sicily that include the sumptuous cathedrals of Palermo and Cefalù. The Duomo’s detached campanile, or bell tower, claims to be the largest astronomical clock in the world, and puts on its best show at noon every day, when a bronze lion (Messina’s ancient emblem) unleashes a mighty roar over the city that can be quite alarming if you’re not expecting it!
Just back from the Duomo, the truncated section of the twelfth-century Chiesa Annunziata dei Catalani squats below pavement level, and is Messina’s only surviving example of Arab/Norman church-building.
When you are cruising the Mediterranean Sea with MSC Cruises, the most obvious excursion from Messina is to the almost too charming hill town of Taormina, spectacularly located on a rocky bluff between the Ionian Sea and the soaring peak of Mount Etna, whose summit with its bleak lava wilderness is one of the most memorable landscapes Italy has to offer.
Once the beloved retreat of poets and writers, Taormina is now the most illustrious resort on the entire island, captivating its visitors with its famous ancient theatre, grand hotels and engaging small-town charm.

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