Mediterranean Magic – Barcelona & Santorini

About this cruise

This one leaves Valletta on May 8, 2026 and spends 7 nights visiting Barcelona, Marseille, Livorno (Florence/Pisa), Cagliari and Palermo at a pace where every day has something going on but there's always time to just sit and watch the water too. There's a stretch of back-to-back port days, so those days are busy, but the sea days around them give you time to recharge. The route threads through 3 countries along the Western Mediterranean coast: Spain, France and Italy. Most ports give you about 9 hours, so you can do more than just tick off the main sights. As for the ship itself, MSC Splendida has 6 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. A spring departure helps too: decent weather and a calmer feel at each port. Hard to ask for much more than that, honestly.