MSC Cruises has launched a brand new itinerary for MSC Poesia that mixes three of the Mediterranean’s hottest locations, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Sailings are scheduled for fall 2023 and supply cruisers a number of ports of name and a selection of embarkation ports.
MSC Poesia to Sail Distinctive 11-Evening Cruises
A brand new 11-night voyage aboard MSC Cruises’ MSC Poesia is designed to supply cruisers an low season escape to a number of the most culturally wealthy ports within the Mediterranean. Sailings are scheduled from September by means of November, when most vacationer crowds may have thinned out.
Cruisers can choose from embarkation ports that embrace Rome and Genoa, Italy; Kusadasi and Istanbul, Turkey; and Athens (Piraeus), Greece, based mostly on departure date. Ports of name are the identical for every departure, and embrace the entire embarkation factors in addition to Palermo, Sicily.
Sailings to Spotlight Area’s Historical Cultures
In Genoa, cruise company can tour historic monuments, church buildings, and different landmark points of interest, such because the Nicolosio Lomellino and Palazzo Bianco palaces, and select from excursions that embrace excursions to the Ligurian Riviera villages of Portofino, Camogli, and Santa Margherita.
At port calls to Kusadasi, cruise company can discover the ruins of Ephesus and luxuriate in seashores that sports activities views of the Aegean Sea. Excursions to archeological websites embrace visits to the stays of Hadrian’s Temple, amongst others. In Istanbul, excursions will take cruisers to the town’s landmarks, such because the Blue Mosque and the Topkapi Palace.
Grecian structure and historic monuments are, in fact, the highlights of port calls to Athens, and the cruise line gives a number of guided sightseeing excursions to prime points of interest just like the Acropolis, the hilltop citadel that gives a shocking view of Athens.
Grand palaces, historic church buildings, and culinary traditions prime the checklist of issues to do and see in Palermo. Excursions will go to the traditional palace Palazzo dei Normanni, and the city of Monreale and its cathedral, which homes golden mosaics that depict biblical scenes.
In Rome, cruise company can discover on their very own or ebook a guided tour of the Colosseum and different metropolis highlights, such because the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, and the Vatican.
Ship Will Sail a 2024 World Cruise
Following her collection of 11-night cruises, MSC Poesia will stay within the Mediterranean, working shorter cruises of three to 10 nights by means of December.
On January 5, 2024, she’s going to start a 121-day World Cruise calling at 52 ports in 31 nations throughout 4 continents. World cruisers can embark the ship in Rome, Genoa, Marseille, France, or Barcelona, Spain.
The itinerary options a number of Mediterranean ports earlier than the ship transits the Suez Canal into the Purple Sea and calls at ports in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and alongside the African coast.
The ship then crosses the Atlantic to name at ports in South America and the Caribbean earlier than heading north to Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and northern Europe earlier than concluding on Might 4, 2024, in Germany.
Port highlights embrace Luxor, Egypt; Petra, Jordan; Mombasa, Kenya; Walvis Bay, Namibia; Belem, Brazil; New York; Halifax, Canada; Nuuk, Greenland; and Reykjavik, Iceland.
MSC Poesia is a Musica class ship that entered service in 2008 and accommodates simply over 3,000 company. The ship, one in all 23 vessels within the MSC Cruises’ fleet, has three swimming swimming pools, 4 whirlpools, poolside films, devoted kids’s and teenage areas, a video arcade, on line casino, present lounge, mini-golf, shuffleboard, and different areas and actions.
Eating venues embrace the principle eating rooms, Il Palladio and Le Fontane, the Villa Pompeiana buffet, and Kaito, a sushi restaurant. Six bars/lounges are supplied, plus two pool bars.
