Book your week-end or your week holidays on board of the schooner "L'Antonio II"
a new way to choose an alternative holiday, between adventure, sailing, nature and history...
An underwater archaeologist, University professor of History, member of the "Centre for Sea Studies" of the "Museo del Mare e della Navigazione antica", together with the Captain and a Sailor, will guide groups of 8 persons maximum on cruises of historical, archaeological and landscape interest.
Travellers will be able to collaborate and practise the sailing boat direction, to follow the professor's lessons, to take walking tours along the coast or to historical and archaeological museums and to enjoy beautiful diving.
On arriving to the coast, after anchoring the schooner on roads or mooring it at the harbour, travellers will go ashore with the professor who - if travellers want - will continue with his history lessons by the museums and archaeological parks recommended on the programme.
This initiative is available also to English speaking groups
Cruise's start dates and shipping areas
April (dates by booking): Argentario and Tuscan archipelago
embarkation and disembarkation: Civitavecchia or Porto Santo Stefano
May (16 - 22 ; 24 - 30): Pontine and Campania Islands
embarkation and disembarkation: Nettuno or Naples
June (4 - 10 ; 15 - 21 ; 22 - 28): Pontine and Campania Islands
embarkation and disembarkation: Nettuno or Naples
September (11 - 17 ; 19 - 25): Argentario and Tuscan archipelago or Corsica and Sardina or Côte d'Azur
embarkation and disembarkation: depends on the site
Tour details and recommended cultural programmes
Tuscan archipelago -- on the Etruscans and Romans' sea
Itinerary 1: Giannutri, Giglio, Porto Ercole, Feniglia, S. Stefano, Orbetello, Talamone
Itinerary 2: Elba island's tour; Portoferraio, Porto Azzurro, Marciana Marina, Marina di Campo
Itinerary 1: Roman villa of Giannutri; Giglio island, medieval village of Giglio Castello; Porto Santo Stefano: Underwater Archaeology Museum and its interesting Aquarium; Orbetello: Etruscan walls, the town hall with the bas-relief of Talamone's temple.
Itinerary 2: Portoferraio: Archaeological Museum, the Roman villa and the Napoleonic Museum; Marciana Marina: Prehistoric archaeology and Etruscan and Roman Museum.
Campania archipelago -- on the Greeks and Romans' sea
(Ischia, Procida, Capri, Baia, Capo Miseno, Napoli, Sorrento)
Napoli, Archaeological Museum; Acropolis of Cuma, Campi Flegrei; Baia: diving to the submerged villa; Capo Miseno: ruins of the most important Roman imperial seaport; Capri, the former Greek Kaprios: the Faraglioni, Tiberio's villa; Ischia: Pithecusa, Antiquarium (Mycenaean finds and ancient Greek shops).
Pontine archipelago -- on the Greeks and Romans' sea
(Ponza, Palmarola, Zannone, Ventotene)
Ventotene: Archaeological Museum; Ponza and Palmarola: Roman piscinas and villas, caves.
Corsica and Sardinia -- on the Phoenicians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans' sea
(Porto Vecchio, Bonifacio, Calvi, Ajaccio, Archipelago of Maddalena, Olbia)
Ajaccio: Napoleon's house and museum; Bonifacio: Aquarium of France; Caprera: Giuseppe Garibaldi's house and museum; Olbia: Roman ships.
Côte d'Azur -- on Phocaean and Roman ships course
Itinerary 1: Monaco, Nice, Antibes, Cannes
Itinerary 2: Saint Tropez, Port Grimaud, Lavandau, Islands of Hyères
Monaco: Oceanographic Museum with living coral reef, Casino; Nice: Archaeological Museum, Naval Museum, National Museum; Cannes: Primitive Art Museum, Sea Museum in which there is a very important division dedicated to underwater archaeology; Cap Ferrat: Musée Île-de-France, which contains a large art collection and fine furnishings of the 16th century; Antibes: Picasso museum; Saint Tropez: trips to the ancient Athenopolis. Lavandau: tour on the famous submarine with the transparent floor; National Park of Hyères' archipelago after mooring at Port Cross.
Prices
The daily price is 150€ per person during the high season (11th june-10th September) and 115€ per person during the low season (all year round), VAT included.
Please note that it is net price, so without any extra cost, except for the galley.
In the amount it is included
• crew's cost: the Captain, a sailor and the professor
• fuel for the schooner
• tender
• fuel for the tender
• three Harbour entrances per week
• final cleaning.
It is not included
• Galley for guests and crew
• Alcoholic drinks
• Sheets, blankets and towels
• Tickets for Archaeological Parks and
Museums
• Costs of the trips to/from the seaports of
embarkation
Important: it is necessary to read and to accept the "General terms to participate in the "Archeotour 2010" and to use the boat and the premises"