Calvi: all 9 tours and excursions for your cruise

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Silver shore privato: private van & guide (full-day)

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Explore Calvi at your leisure during your full-day (8-Hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Please note: This tour is non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours prior to arrival in the port. Actual...

Silver shore privato: private van & guide (half-day)

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Explore Calvi at your leisure during your half-day (4-Hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Please note: This tour is non-refundable if cancelled within 48 hours prior to arrival in the port. Actual...

Ile rousse exploration

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Coach drive to Ile Rousse, the second important town of the Region Balagna. Learn about Pasquale Paoli, contemporary to Napoléon who became his enemy, as well as the enemy of Genoese 'owners' of Corsica. Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli was a Corsican patriot and leader, the president of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica. Paoli designed and wrote the Constitution of the state of Corse. Visit Ile Rousse. Enjoy the view points from trolley...

Oeno tourism – winery tour and tasting

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Explore the history and flavours of a Corsican winery in the foreground of Mount Grossu during this guided winery tour and tasting excursion. Calvi, Scenic Drive, Winery Visit Depart the pier for the scenic, approximately 30-minute drive to a winery created in the 1960s by Baron Henry Louis de La Grange, owner of the Convent of Alzipratu. This winery was run by Maurice Acquaviva before being taken over by his son, Pierre, and his wife, Cécilia. Vineyards,...

Scenic south coast drive

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Discover the beauty of the island of Corsica, one of the jewels of the Mediterranean, on this delightful, half-day exploration. Corsica is an island of contrasts, from rugged mountain outcrops, to tranquil broad bays and intimate coves of golden sand. Notre Dame de la Serra Depart the pier on your coach and drive to Notre Dame de la Serra, a small chapel built in 1860 over the site of a 15th-century sanctuary. Pause to gaze at the dramatic views of Calvi, Calenzana and...

Illustrious men

  • Cruise line: Silversea
The area of Calvi, in northwest Corsica, boasts over 600 miles (966km) of coastline and in such a small place in the world holds the rich history of famous men. Discover, according to legend that Christopher Columbus came from Calvi, which was at the time part of the Genoese Empire. The anarchist uprising against the Genoese was led by Pascal Paoli from 1729 to 1768. Admiral Nelson lost his right eye at Calvi during the siege of the citadel. Even Napoléon Bonaparte was to be kept at bay...

Calvi by mountain bike

  • Cruise line: Silversea
An invigorating and scenic half-day mountain-biking experience awaits you as you get up-close to the splendid beauty and architecture of Calvi in a unique new way. Corsica is exploding onto the European mountain biking scene as the must visit destination. Mountain Biking After receiving your safety instructions, helmet and bicycle, depart the pier for a guided adventurous mountain biking tour through Calvi. Ride approximately 2.5 miles (4 kilometres) over mostly tarred...

Calvi walking tour

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Calvi is a most charming town found in the Mediterranean and a walking tour is a great way to see it. The narrow, steep roads in the Citadel area still house some residents and feature a few small parks and some lovely small churches, but the views from the top are amazing and worth the climb. Citadel From the pier, follow your guide to the entrance of the citadel, perched on a rocky hill overlooking the port. Walk through the drawbridge and stop to enjoy a breathtaking...

Old villages of corsica

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Experience the scenic beauty and charm of Corsica during this memorable, half-day excursion through its picturesque villages. Exploring the perched villages set in the hillsides to the east of Calvi and to the south of L'Ille Rousse, there are dozens of these small villages and each has its own particular charm. Lumio, Sant'Antonino, Cateri, Pigna Depart the pier for the approximately 30-minute drive through the hinterland of the Balagne region and along the coastal road...