To cruise Mediterranean waters in an intimate, comfortable ship is the ultimate way to explore the world's largest inland sea. Welcome to ElegantCruises.com, a luxury small ship cultural and expedition cruising company.

Cruise Mediterranean Waters and Discover Treasures with ElegantCruises.com
When you cruise Mediterranean waters with Elegant Cruise, you are on a romantic adventure where a wealth of scenic fishing ports, historic walled medieval towns and spectacular islands, the remains of ancient civilizations with fabulous architectural ruins, and magnificent landscapes in a region that offers a fantastic array of holiday options will be revealed to you.

Your Search for "Cruise Mediterranean" has led you to the Best Source for Innovative Small Ship Cruises
ElegantCruises.com has several exceptional ships to cruise Mediterranean waters in an elegant seafaring style that puts the comfort of her passengers first. Aboard either the delightful 62-passenger Monet or the handsome 104-passenger Andrea, our passengers' leisurely cruise Mediterranean waters in these highly maneuverable vessels. With relatively shallow draft, these ships are able to dock close to many historic, out of the way sites inaccessible to the large ships that also cruise Mediterranean waters. For those seafaring sailors among you who dream to cruise Mediterranean waters in a four mast full rigged windjammer, ElegantCruises.com offers the Sea Cloud.

With Our Insightful Programs Cruise Mediterranean Waters
Elegant Cruises offers a variety of enriching programs that give our passengers the opportunity to cruise Mediterranean waters from the Canary Islands into the Western Mediterranean following the sea lanes of Roman galleys, Moorish battleships, Spanish and Portuguese treasure ships and British 18th-century battleships. Cruise Mediterranean ancient sea lanes to Safi and Casablanca in Morocco, onward to Seville and then to Mahon, Menorca concluding your cruise in the fortress city of Valletta, Malta. Or perhaps you would prefer to cruise Mediterranean waters on the Eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea visiting the sunny shores and romantic cities of the Iberian Peninsula and the history-rich islands of Greece and Turkey. You may also cruise Mediterranean azure blue waters west through the Strait of Gibraltar to the Portuguese island of Madeira and its natural amphitheater of a port, the beautiful city of Funchal. Onward, you will travel to the old-world Portuguese culture and heritage of the Azores, visiting four of its archipelago's nine islands. All our itineraries are carefully designed programs that cruise Mediterranean ports and islands visiting many scenic locations that are less frequented but fascinating nevertheless. You will discover that ElegantCruises.com has crafted insightful programs to Malta, Corsica, Sicily, Sardinia and Kafalonia that aren't available from other ship or tour companies that cruise Mediterranean ports-of-call.

Cities That Are Gateways to a Cruise Mediterranean Vacation
Although we do not include airfare in our cruise Mediterranean holiday rates, we recognize the importance of this feature in the overall general convenience and ultimate enjoyment of a cruise Mediterranean vacation.

In order to facilitate connecting your flight with our cruise Mediterranean programs we work with reputable travel partners that specialize in finding the best air routing and rates. While you make a reservation with ElegantCruises.com for a cruise Mediterranean holiday, please let us know if you would like assistance in your air ticketing. If you have the propensity to spend a few days exploring these exceptional gateway cities, our travel partners will also arrange pre cruise Mediterranean and post cruise Mediterranean hotel accommodations.

For our Cultural Crossroads of the Mediterranean program, the itinerary begins in Las Palmas, the capitol of Gran Canaria one of the sun-drenched Canary Islands and concludes in Valletta, Malta's capital and a World Heritage site. Malta's Baroque architecture is the legacy of the Knights of St. John, who planned the city as a refuge to care for injured soldiers and pilgrims during the Crusades in the 16th century. For our Mediterranean Island cruises in the Adriatic or Aegean Seas, many our programs begin or end in Venice, a most exquisite city that you will find magical whether it is your first visit or second, third or fourth.

Comfort and Convenience on a Cruise Mediterranean Holiday
Certainly one of the simple pleasures of traveling by ship is that once you are onboard, you only need to unpack your luggage one time. On an ElegantCruises.com cruise Mediterranean adventure, awaken each morning in a new destination. How pleasant to avoid the highways and suburban traffic with which motor coach tours must contend. Although the ship and circumstances are different, in many ways, your first impressions of a port will be much like those that ancient sea travelers experienced centuries ago when wooden vessels were the primary means of transport across the Mediterranean. We have a few land excursions that are included in your cruise Mediterranean rate. However most shore excursions that are offered are optional since many of our cruise Mediterranean guests prefer to explore on their own by seeking out local attractions that they are interested in exploring. To "cruise Mediterranean style" means different things to different people, and you'll find that our programs are designed to stimulate and motivate our passengers. Photographers, history buffs, antiquity seekers, nature lovers and vacation explorers, ElegantCruises.com has a cruise Mediterranean vacation well suited to your interests. Our cruise Mediterranean programs offer many benefits as well as great value.