A Calif.-based luxury cruise company now offers new tours to help travelers explore the wealthy Christian history of Europe, providing occasions to make a pilgrimage, attend mass, make a contribution to charitable works and witness the relics and design of spiritual 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 part of its imminent Western european Season, the posh cruise company expounded in an announcement Fri..

If scheduled by Feb. 28, the comprehensive cruises begin at $1,360 per head in double occupancy with air add-ons from more than ninety airports in the U. S. A sale ending Sat. (Feb. Eleven) offers up to $800 per stateroom in shore excursion credits on select EU voyages.

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

The Dubrovnik tour encompasses a pilgrimage into Bosnia in Medjugorje, where reported visions of the Virgin Mary have made Medjugorje’s Apparition Hill a top sacred site for Catholic pilgrims. The Barcelona tour has private mass with Crystal’s onboard priest 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 includes the UNESCO World Heritage town of Santiago de Compostela, seen from the rooftop of the biggest Romanesque church in Spain. The London tour features the carved, covered 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 an opportunity to travelers to assist the 400-year-old charity brotherhood of Pio Monte della Misericordia, the church famous for its art works, including Caravaggio’s The 7 Works of Mercy.

“This program growth builds upon our incredibly popular Jewish heritage tours offered around the world,” John Stoll, VP of land and port operations, claimed. “Religious-related shore expeditions are only one more way our guests can experience the unique history and culture of a destination, and perhaps even hook up with their own personal ancestry, as well “, writes tagza.

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