Featured SeaDream itinerary
Istanbul, Turkey to Athens (Piraeus), Greece
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July 25 2015 - August 04 2015
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Istanbul spans Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus, with Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, Topkapı Palace, and the Grand Bazaar forming a remarkable historic ensemble. The former imperial capital also preserves Byzantine and Ottoman walls, churches, mosques, and cisterns. Its waterways continue to shape the city’s cultural and commercial life.
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Molyvos, also called Mythimna, is a hill town on Lesbos crowned by a Byzantine castle. Stone houses, red-tiled roofs, and narrow lanes descend toward a small harbor, while the waterfront fills with fishing boats and tavernas. Olive groves, hot springs, and northern Aegean beaches surround the settlement, giving it a distinctly traditional island setting.
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Skopelos is a pine-clad Sporades island of whitewashed lanes, hillside chapels, pebble coves, and traditional villages overlooking the Aegean. The harbor town rises amphitheatrically above the water, while monasteries, orchards, and wooded trails reveal a quieter landscape beyond the coast. Local ceramics, honey, and fishing remain part of island life.
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Skiathos combines a lively harbor town with pine-backed beaches, clear Aegean water, and walking routes through the island’s forested interior. The old town, monasteries, and maritime traditions add cultural texture, while nearby islets and the protected waters of the Northern Sporades broaden the setting beyond the main waterfront.
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Kusadasi combines an Aegean resort harbor with access to the extraordinary ruins of Ephesus. The ancient city’s marble streets, Terrace Houses, and monumental library reveal Roman urban life, while the nearby House of the Virgin Mary is an important pilgrimage site. In Kusadasi itself, Pigeon Island castle overlooks the waterfront and beaches of the surrounding coast.
This retained voyage is no longer in SeaDream's current catalogue, so a voyage-specific shore-experience list could not be reverified for this call. Deluxe Cruises preserves the itinerary without adding excursions from another sailing.
Patmos is traditionally identified as the island where Saint John received the visions recorded in Revelation. The Cave of the Apocalypse and the fortified Monastery of Saint John form the spiritual heart of the destination, with whitewashed Chora clustered around them. Downhill, Skala’s harbor connects this UNESCO-recognized sacred landscape with the wider Aegean.
This retained voyage is no longer in SeaDream's current catalogue, so a voyage-specific shore-experience list could not be reverified for this call. Deluxe Cruises preserves the itinerary without adding excursions from another sailing.
Parikia is Paros’s principal harbor, where whitewashed Cycladic lanes surround one of Greece’s most significant early Byzantine churches, Panagia Ekatontapyliani. The island’s celebrated Parian marble was used for major ancient sculptures and monuments. Beaches and traditional inland villages reveal a quieter landscape beyond the busy waterfront, grounded in craft, agriculture, and long Mediterranean history.
This retained voyage is no longer in SeaDream's current catalogue, so a voyage-specific shore-experience list could not be reverified for this call. Deluxe Cruises preserves the itinerary without adding excursions from another sailing.
Santorini’s white villages cling to the rim of a vast volcanic caldera created by one of antiquity’s most powerful eruptions. Akrotiri preserves a sophisticated Bronze Age settlement beneath layers of ash. Vines trained low against wind and heat produce Assyrtiko and sweet Vinsanto, while capers, tomatoes and yellow split-pea fava express the island’s mineral-rich but demanding soil.
This retained voyage is no longer in SeaDream's current catalogue, so a voyage-specific shore-experience list could not be reverified for this call. Deluxe Cruises preserves the itinerary without adding excursions from another sailing.
Nafplion, Greece’s first modern capital, occupies a graceful harbor on the Argolic Gulf. The Palamidi fortress crowns a steep hill, while Venetian architecture enriches the old town below. Nearby Mycenae and Epidaurus connect Nafplion with foundational Greek archaeology, and Bourtzi fortress, standing on an offshore islet, remains the harbor’s most recognizable landmark.
This retained voyage is no longer in SeaDream's current catalogue, so a voyage-specific shore-experience list could not be reverified for this call. Deluxe Cruises preserves the itinerary without adding excursions from another sailing.
Hydra’s crescent harbor is framed by waterfront restaurants, shops, markets, and galleries. Steep stone lanes climb from the port into a rugged island landscape, while the absence of motorized vehicles preserves the town’s distinctive calm. The combination of maritime scenery, historic character, and walkable streets makes Hydra especially rewarding to explore on foot.
This retained voyage is no longer in SeaDream's current catalogue, so a voyage-specific shore-experience list could not be reverified for this call. Deluxe Cruises preserves the itinerary without adding excursions from another sailing.
Piraeus has served as Athens’ maritime gateway since antiquity, when Themistocles fortified the natural harbors of Kantharos, Zea and Munichia for the Athenian fleet. Today its waterfront combines tavernas, theaters and maritime institutions. The Archaeological Museum, Averof museum ship and hill of Kastella illuminate the port’s history while opening broad views across Athens and the Saronic Gulf.
This retained voyage is no longer in SeaDream's current catalogue, so a voyage-specific shore-experience list could not be reverified for this call. Deluxe Cruises preserves the itinerary without adding excursions from another sailing.
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