Great civilizations have always been drawn to the Black Sea. It was a highway for commerce and conquest, but also for ideas. Greek and Roman culture flourished along the southern shore. From Constantinople the Byzantines spread their civilization north and west. And both the czars ...

“ARMS AND THE MAN I SING,” wrote Virgil of Aeneas, who, “forc’d by Fate,” “expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore.” The Aeneid is a story of inherited glory—the glory that passed from fallen Troy to Rome. On ...

Great music, performed by award-winning artists, in unforgettable locations. That is the theme of our autumn Mediterranean Music Cruise.

We’ve chosen the music and the locations with great care. For example, we’ll hear Wagner at Ravello’s Villa Rufolo, a ...

Thessaloniki, the biblical Thessalonica and the main city in northern Greece, is one of Europe’s most interesting cities and a place of vital historical importance, yet few travelers have had the good fortune to visit it. This ancient city, named after the sister of ...

Join us this October on a romantic voyage to some of the Mediterranean’s most beautiful and illuminating sites. Setting out from Venice’s Grand Canal, our route will take us to cities on the Adriatic coast, in the Greek Isles, and on the Turkish coast that are poised ...

Once there was a forlorn rock, drifting about the Aegean. A trident pierced it, and Delos drifted no longer. A girl rested under a date palm here, and gave birth to a god and a goddess. The island turned to gold. And thus the Greek myths come down to us. “These ...

Two thousand years ago North Africa was a garden of vineyards, olive groves, and vast fields of golden ripening grain. In this beautiful land flourished the civilizations of Egypt and Carthage. Colonists from Greece and empire-builders from Rome came here to build their own cities ...

Throughout the Middle Ages the art, architecture, music, and science of Venice were influenced and enriched by the Byzantine and Islamic civilizations that flourished in the Aegean, Asia Minor, and the Middle East. Setting forth from Venice, we’ll explore the rich interplay ...

History is alive in the lands that border the Mediterranean Sea. In Seville and Barcelona, Marseille and Bonifacio, Dubrovnik and Split, every corner and piazza preserves a memory of the intrepid Portuguese, the conquering Romans or Moors or the vast seaborne trading empire of the ...

Standing like jewels against the desert sands and looking out to the blue water of the Mediterranean Sea, the great Greek and Roman cities of North Africa, that are now the proud inheritance of Libya, are among the most dazzling of the ancient world. As the ...