Sapphire Serenade – Riviera & Rome

About this cruise

By May 21, 2026 you'll be ready for this. 7 nights out of Marseille, visiting Tarragona, Valencia, Livorno (Florence/Pisa), Civitavecchia (Rome) and Genoa, and nothing on the agenda except showing up. The itinerary clusters several port calls together. Fast-paced for a few days, then the sea days hit and you can catch your breath. Warm plazas, gelato by the harbour, and old things everywhere you look. You get around 11 hours in each port, which is enough for an excursion, lunch, and some wandering around on your own. When you're not ashore, MSC Orchestra has 5 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. A May departure catches that sweet window of warm-enough weather before the summer rush. Good route, good ship, good timing. It all lines up.