Oceania Nautica: 21-Night World

Marghera cruise port is the mainland industrial port serving Venice, located about 10 kilometers northwest of the historic center. Since 2021, large cruise ships (over 25,000 gross tons) have been banned from sailing into Venice via the Giudecca Canal due to environmental and structural concerns for the fragile historic city.

Marghera cruise port is the mainland industrial port serving Venice, located about 10 kilometers northwest of the historic center. Since 2021, large cruise ships (over 25,000 gross tons) have been banned from sailing into Venice via the Giudecca Canal due to environmental and structural concerns for the fragile historic city.

Split cruise port is the main gateway to central Dalmatia and one of the most remarkable cities in Croatia. The city is built around and inside Diocletian's Palace, a 1,700-year-old Roman fortress that the emperor built as his retirement residence around 300 AD.

Salerno is the eastern gateway to the Amalfi Coast, one of Italy's most celebrated stretches of coastline. Cruise ships dock at the Stazione Marittima in Salerno's port, a short walk from the city center and the starting point for trips along the legendary coastal road to Amalfi, Positano, and Ravello.

Rome's cruise port is in Civitavecchia, a working port town about 80 kilometers northwest of the city. That distance is the single most important thing to understand about this stop.

La Spezia is a working Italian naval and commercial city on the Ligurian coast, but cruise passengers know it primarily as the gateway to Cinque Terre, the five colorful fishing villages clinging to the cliffs along a rugged stretch of coastline just north of the city. The La Spezia cruise port sits at the edge of the city center, a short walk from the train station that connects directly to the Cinque Terre villages.

Marseille cruise port is France's busiest and one of the major stops on western Mediterranean itineraries. The city is France's second largest and its oldest, founded by Greek sailors over 2,600 years ago, and it has a rougher, more authentic edge than the polished Riviera towns further east.

Barcelona cruise port is the busiest in the Mediterranean, handling millions of passengers a year across multiple terminals. The city behind it earns that traffic.

Palma de Mallorca cruise port is one of the busiest in the Mediterranean and the main cruise gateway to the Balearic Islands. Palma sits on the south coast of Mallorca, the largest of the Balearics, about 250 kilometers south of Barcelona.

Alicante is a mid-sized Spanish city of about 330,000 people on the Costa Blanca in southeastern Spain. It's a working Mediterranean city that happens to have a beautiful waterfront, a hilltop castle, and some of the best weather in Europe.

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, a 6.7-square-kilometer enclave dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, a 426-meter limestone monolith that guards the western entrance to the Mediterranean.

Arrecife is the capital of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands in the eastern Atlantic Ocean about 125 km off the coast of West Africa. The island has about 155,000 residents and a landscape unlike anywhere else in Europe: volcanic craters, lava fields, black sand beaches, and an almost lunar terrain shaped by eruptions in the 1730s that buried a third of the island.