Mediterráneo desde Split

With its seafront cafés and ancient alleyways, shouting stallholders and travellers on the move, bustling, exuberant Split is one of Croatia’s and the Mediterranean’s most compelling cities, it’s easy to see this feeling when you step aground from your MSC cruise.

It has a unique historical heritage too, having grown out of the palace built here by the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 295AD. The palace remains Split’s central ingredient, having been gradually transformed into a warren of houses, tenements, churches and chapels by the various peoples who came to live here after Diocletian’s successors had departed.
Adapted long ago to serve as Split’s town centre, Diocletian’s Palace is certainly not an archaeological “site”. Although set-piece buildings such as Diocletian’s mausoleum (now the cathedral) and the Temple of Jupiter (now a baptistery) still remain, other aspects of the palace have been tinkered with so much by successive generations that it is no longer recognizable as an ancient Roman structure. Best place to start exploring with an MSC excursion the seaward side of the palace is Split’s broad and lively Riva.
Running along the palace’s southern facade, into which shops, cafés and a warren of tiny flats have been built, the Riva is where a large part of the city’s population congregates day and night to meet friends, catch up on gossip or idle away an hour or two in a café. Nearly everything worth seeing in Split is concentrated in the compact Old Town behind the waterfront Riva, made up in part of the various remains and conversions of Diocletian’s Palace itself, and the medieval additions to the west of it. You can walk across this area in about ten minutes, although it would take a lifetime to explore all its nooks and crannies.

Venecia, un romántico destino de MSC Cruceros por el Mediterráneo, es una obra maestra de la artesanía. La ciudad está construida sobre 118 pequeñas islas, separadas por canales, en una laguna poco profunda en el mar Adriático. Esta ciudad, declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO, rebosa belleza, desde los canales bordeados de góndolas y los antiguos palacios de mármol hasta las proezas arquitectónicas históricas como la Basílica de San Marcos y el Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo. Visitar Venecia es como estar en una tierra de fábula, una mezcla centelleante de cultura, historia y agua.

The Italian port town of Brindisi, an MSC Mediterranean Cruises destination, boasts a characterful ancient centre, home to a vast array of treasures.
Sites such as the 11th-century Duomo and Alfonsino Castle are architectural jewels just waiting to be discovered. The perfect starting point for visiting other destinations, namely Lecce, Ostuni, and Alberobello, Brindisi delivers culture, colour and Italian romance along its palm-fringed streets and seafront promenade.

Mykonos se ha convertido en la más famosa y por consiguiente la más popular de las Islas Cícladas, y es visitada por casi un millón de turistas cada año. Esto ha sido gracias a sus tesoros de belleza natural, su rica historia y su carácter cosmopolita. La isla es relativamente pequeña y por lo tanto es fácil de explorar. La capital de la isla es la ciudad de Mykonos (Hora), que tiene un colorido puerto y es considerada una de las ciudades más bellas de la isla debido a su imagen de la isla de postal arquetípica.

El pireo es el puerto de Atenas, capital de Grecia y la ciudad más grande del país. Atenas está dominada por la colina de cima plana Acrópolis, lugar del Partenón, uno de los monumentos clásicos en el mundo.
El centro de la Atenas moderno, sobre todo la elegante zona de Kolonaki, tiene muchas tiendas de diseño, restaurantes elegantes y hoteles de clase internacional. Atenas siempre ha exudado un encanto único, su carácter vivaz gana a decenas de miles de visitantes cada año. Los mercados callejeros, tabernas cubiertas de viñedos, puestos de souvenir y monumentos antiguos forman parte de Atenas.

With its seafront cafés and ancient alleyways, shouting stallholders and travellers on the move, bustling, exuberant Split is one of Croatia’s and the Mediterranean’s most compelling cities, it’s easy to see this feeling when you step aground from your MSC cruise.

It has a unique historical heritage too, having grown out of the palace built here by the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 295AD. The palace remains Split’s central ingredient, having been gradually transformed into a warren of houses, tenements, churches and chapels by the various peoples who came to live here after Diocletian’s successors had departed.
Adapted long ago to serve as Split’s town centre, Diocletian’s Palace is certainly not an archaeological “site”. Although set-piece buildings such as Diocletian’s mausoleum (now the cathedral) and the Temple of Jupiter (now a baptistery) still remain, other aspects of the palace have been tinkered with so much by successive generations that it is no longer recognizable as an ancient Roman structure. Best place to start exploring with an MSC excursion the seaward side of the palace is Split’s broad and lively Riva.
Running along the palace’s southern facade, into which shops, cafés and a warren of tiny flats have been built, the Riva is where a large part of the city’s population congregates day and night to meet friends, catch up on gossip or idle away an hour or two in a café. Nearly everything worth seeing in Split is concentrated in the compact Old Town behind the waterfront Riva, made up in part of the various remains and conversions of Diocletian’s Palace itself, and the medieval additions to the west of it. You can walk across this area in about ten minutes, although it would take a lifetime to explore all its nooks and crannies.