Shoreside Activities & Events in Mediterranean

Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola

Location: Genoa/Portofino/Rapallo, Italy, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

As you pick your way through crowds, the old centre can appear run-down and shabby, but it's clear that many of the buildings were once - very grand indeed.

Garden of Mortella

Location: Isola Ponza/Procida/Ischia/Capri, Italy, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

We heard reports of Captains describing these gardens as being an enjoyable and beautiful place for guests to visit.

Getting Around

Location: The French Riviera/ Antibes/ Cannes/ Nice, France, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

Villefranche is one of the stops for the train running along this coast, two stops before Monaco.

Giardini Poseidon Thermal Springs (Termes)

Location: Isola Ponza/Procida/Ischia/Capri, Italy, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

The health & wellness Centre, and thermal springs in Poseidon Gardens are in huge sprawling lush green gardens set below a cliff with around 20 natural spring pools ranging in temperature from 28C -40C, overlooking the Bay of Citara.

Go-Karting / Laser Tag & Indoor Bowling

Location: Barcelona, Spain, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

Many crew we spoke with in Barcelona recommended a group outing to the Indoor Leisure Centre, with Bowling, Laser Tag and a Go-Karting track as being a lot of fun.

Golf Son Parc Menorca

Location: Menorca, Spain, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events, Sports / Gym / Fitness / Golf / Tennis / Yoga

The Son Parc golf course again came well recommended by many Captains as being an attractive and challenging 18-hole course, surrounded by beautiful countryside with far reaching sea views.

Grandmasters’ Palace

Location: Malta, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

The Palace stands in the very heart of Valletta - the World Heritage City founded by the Sovereign Hospitaller Military Order of St John after the Great Siege of Malta in 1565.

Herceg Novi

Location: Montenegro, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

Founded in 1382 as a fortress and set strategically at the mouth of the Bay of Kotor, Herceg Novi has been ruled, over the centuries, by the Ottoman Empire, Spain, Venitians, Russia, France and Austria.

Hikes

Location: Monaco, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

The Via Alpina is an innovative European project traversing eight alpine countries: five trails of over 5000kms.

Hiking The Mediterranean Steps

Location: Gibraltar, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

This historic challenging walk was reopened in July 2007.

Historical & archaeological sites

Location: Turkey Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

Modern Turkey offers some of the best historical and archaeological sites available in the world.

Ice Rink - Palais des Sports Jean Bouin

Location: The French Riviera/ Antibes/ Cannes/ Nice, France, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

Illes Gyms

Location: Palma & Puerto Portals, Spain, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

We picked up highly enthusiastic feedback for this Fitness Centre last year… hearing how they do special deals for yachties

Institute of Nautical Archaeology - INA Bodrum Research Center

Location: Turkey, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

This museum is a fantastic visit, housing a large collection of artefacts that have been retrieved from the bottom of the sea, where they had sunk hundreds, or thousands of years ago.

Isles des Lérins

Location: The French Riviera/ Antibes/ Cannes/ Nice, France, Mediterranean Categories: Shoreside Activities & Events

Just off the coast of Cannes lie the Isles des Lérins, St-Marguerite the closest to Cannes and St-Honorat.