A Calif.-Based Luxury Cruise Company Is Now Offering New Tours To Assist Travelers Explore The Rich Christian Good Europe, Providing Opportunities To Come Up With A Pilgrimage, Attend Mass, Contribute To Charitable Works And Witness The Relics And Architecture Of Religious Sites.

A Calif.-based luxury cruise company now offers new tours to help travelers explore the wealthy Christian history of Europe, providing opportunities to make a pilgrimage, attend mass, contribute to charitable works and witness the relics and design of non secular sites.

Los Angeles-based Crystal Cruises will start Christian Heritage Tours to the Mediterranean, Western Europe and the North Cape from April to December as an element of its imminent European Season, the luxury cruise company said in a press release Friday.

If prepared by February. Twenty-eight, the comprehensive cruises begin at $1,360 per head in double occupancy with air add-ons from more than ninety airfields in the US A sale ending Sat. (Feb. Eleven) offers up to $800 per stateroom in shore excursion credits on select Western european excursions.

Crystal Cruises, a Japanese luxury cruise line, is known for its 2 medium-sized, high-end ships, Crystal Symphony and Crystal Tranquillity, which each hold about 1,000 guests. These ships will take travelers to key destinations in Europe, including the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, Barcelona, Leknes town in the Norwegian archipelago of Lofoten, the south Italian city of Sorrento, the town of La Coruna in Spain, and Southampton and London in the U.K.

The Dubrovnik tour includes a pilgrimage into Bosnia in Medjugorje, where reported visions of the Virgin Mary have made Medjugorje's Apparition Hill a top holy site for Catholic pilgrims. The Barcelona tour has non-public mass with Crystal's onboard clergyman at Gaudi's infamous Sagrada Familia, a large Catholic church.

In Norway, it takes travelers to see the 18th century, wooden Russian-style Flakstad Church. The La Coruna tour comprises the UNESCO World Heritage town of Santiago de Compostela, observed from the rooftop of the largest Romanesque church in Spain. The London tour features the carved, canopied choir stalls of the about 1,000-year-old Winchester Cathedral, once the seat of Anglo-Saxon and Norman royal power.

The cruise to Sorrento, Italy, involves a "voluntourism excursion," which gives a chance to travelers to assist the 400-year-old charity brotherhood of Pio Monte della Misericordia, the church known for its art works, including Caravaggio's The Seven Works of Mercy.

"This program expansion builds on our exceptionally popular Jewish heritage tours offered round the world," John Stoll, vice chairman of land and port operations, claimed. "Religious-related shore trips are a single more way our guests can experience the unique history and culture of a destination, and perhaps even hook up with their own private ancestry, as well ", writes tagza.