Duration: approx. 7.5 hours, lunch not included

While Rome was certainly not built in a day, this easy-going tour lets you check out the eternal city’s most iconic locations in just under 8 hours! After about a 90-minute drive to meet your guide, you will first make your way up Aventine Hill for a peek at the Basilica of St. Peter through the so-called keyhole in the grounds of the impressive Villa del Priorato di Malta. Your route around Rome will also include views of the Pyramid of Cestius, Caracalla Baths, Circus Maximus, Colosseum, the Bocca della Verità (the Mouth of Truth) fountain as well as the Roman theatre and the splendid Piazza and Palazzo Barberini. Your jaunt through living history will be followed by a pleasure of a decidedly more modern and urbane kind: shopping in the city’s cult fashion district all around Piazza del Popolo right down to Via Condotti, Via Borgognona, Via Frattina and Piazza di Spagna. Splurge, if you feel the urge, on the high-end jewellery and couture fashions presented in the glossy retail outlets of Italian and international designers or simply gather inspiration during a bit of window shopping ahead of your 90-minute drive back to the ship, during which you can relax and relive the memories of your fabulous time in Rome.

Setting off directly from the pier, this tour of Constanţa – one of the oldest cities in the whole of Europe with a history dating right back to 600 B.C. – begins with a stop at the Roman Mosaics, a once huge 3-tier complex that was constructed in the 4^th century A.D. and constitutes an exquisite reminder of Constanţa’s heyday as a centre of commerce. A visit to the fascinating Navy Museum is next, which is located close to the port. Apart from charts, models of ancient and modern boats, old navigational instruments, photos and documents, the museum’s copious collection even includes a dug-out canoe made from a single tree trunk, a 16^th-century navigation set and a mid-17^th-century Venetian celestial globe. Your tour then continues by coach to the city centre, where you will have time to explore on your own, do some shopping or maybe simply relax in a café. During your return drive back to the pier and your ship, one final stop will be made at the Orthodox Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, a wonderful Greco-Roman-style building constructed towards the end of the 19^th century.