A cruise offering from Smithsonian Journeys and PONANT
Trace the legacy of ancient empires on an eight-day cruise between Athens and Venice, exploring numerous World Heritage sites such as Dubrovnik, Hvar, and Kotor, along the spectacular Adriatic coast.
Cruising the Dalmatian Coast and the Ionian Sea
From Venice to Athens aboard the 184-guest Le Bougainville or L'Austral
8 days from $5,810
A cruise offering from Smithsonian Journeys and PONANT
Trace the legacy of ancient empires on an eight-day cruise between Athens and Venice, exploring numerous World Heritage sites such as Dubrovnik, Hvar, and Kotor, along the spectacular Adriatic coast.
Experts
Aneta Georgievska-Shine
Aneta Georgievska-Shine is a scholar of the Renaissance and the baroque eras, yet as an art historian, her interests range from ancient to contemporary art. In addition to her affiliation with the University of Maryland, she frequently presents lectures for museums and art institutions in the Washington D.C. area, including the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and the Smithsonian. Her publications include scholarly books and numerous articles in U.S. and international journals, as well as essays in exhibition catalogs.
A popular Smithsonian Journeys Expert, Aneta has led numerous journeys to France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, as well as Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to her art historical expertise, she brings a deep knowledge of the history, politics, and languages of Central and Eastern Europe. Aneta is a native speaker of Macedonian and has working knowledge of several other European languages.
Jim Laurie
Jim Laurie is an award winning writer, journalist and broadcaster, who has travelled the world for more than 50 years. He is the author of the book: The Last Helicopter: Two Lives in Indochina - a story of love, war and survival in the 1970's. Jim covered Vietnam, Cambodia, India, and Japan for NBC News before joining ABC News to cover China, the Philippines, Afghanistan, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Italy, Russia, the Baltic States, war in the Balkans, and beginning of a united Germany. He has interviewed such global leaders as the Dalai Lama, China's Deng Xiaoping, and Russia's Vladimir Putin. He is the recipient of multiple Emmy and Overseas Press Club Awards. He has written and produced numerous documentaries including those on China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan, and Global environmental activism. His talks focus on the modern history of more than a dozen countries. They are enhanced by his personal history in those countries and his rich archive of audio-video resources.
Dennis Romano
Dennis Romano is a specialist in the history of medieval and Renaissance Europe and the Mediterranean. The Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History emeritus at Syracuse University, he is the author of dozens of articles and five books including The Likeness of Venice: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari, 1373-1457 and Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy, both published by Yale University Press. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. He is currently writing, for Oxford University Press, a history of Venice from the city’s origins to the present day.