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 ...

The Africa that most travelers know is the “safari”, most probably in East Africa. This voyage is far from those expectations.

We are excited to show you something very different, and marvelous, that will change your expectations of an African vacation, as we ...

We’d like to welcome you on a voyage unlike anything you’ve encountered before. Following the route of Vasco da Gama and other explorers of the 15th century, we will be exploring nine central West African nations – including Togo, Benin, Cameroon, Angola, and the ...

Rounding the Cape of Good Hope – that was the challenge that opened the world. Beyond the mammoth plateau of Table Mountain, Vasco da Gama spied the spice islands of the East Indies; but he saw far more than that. The arc of Southern Africa he sailed – and we after him ...

There are over 120 known species of lemur living in the forests of Madagascar. They’re some of the most extraordinary animals you could ever hope to see, and Madagascar is virtually the only place they exist in the wild. These ancient, miniature primates – with names ...

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 ...