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Italy
shore excursions
for popular port cities

Agrigento

Agrigento ruins.

Alghero

Neptune's Grotto.

Amalfi - Capri - Naples -
Positano - Sorrento

Pompeii. Herculaneum. Amalfi Coast. Capri. Mt Vesuvius Summit.

Catania - Messina - Taormina

Taormina. Mt Etna. Siracusa.

Civitavecchia

Rome. 0stia Antiqua. Villa d'Este.

Genoa - La Spezia - Portofino

Florence. Pisa. Siena. San Gimignano. Lucca.

Livorno

Florence. Pisa. Siena. San Gimignano. Lucca.

Olbia

Sardinia's Costa Smeralda.

 

Venice and Trieste are in the Eastern (not Western) Mediterranean. For their shore excursions, click Adriatic Italy.

 

France + Monaco + Malta
Spain + Gibraltar + Tunisia

 

Greece
Croatia/Turkey

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Top 10 Mediterranean Ports of Call

1   Civitavecchia  Gateway to Rome

2   Piraeus  Gateway to Athen

3   Venice  Italy

4   Livorno  Gateway to Florence

5   Istanbul

6   Dubrovnik  Croatia

7   Naples  Gateway to Pompeii + more

8   Marseille  Gateway to Provence

9   Nice  Gateway to French Riviera

10 Malaga  Spain

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