Ancona Cruises
Start planning your cruise by booking your excursions in Ancona and surrounding areas
A stiff climb from the port area, where your MSC cruise ship awaits your return, passing Ancona’s well-signposted Roman remains along the way, will take you to the pink-and-white Duomo. Mostly built in a restrained Romanesque style, this is contrasted by an outburst of Gothic exuberance in the doorway’s cluster of slender columns, some plain, others twisted and carved.
The most memorable feature is a screen along the edge of the raised right transept. However, it may be the views from here, the cruise ships and the ferries lined up in the port and the coast fading into the haze, that remain longest in the memory.
Ancona’s large, three-storey Museo Archeologico in the old quarter is a fair place to while away an hour or two, its wacky moulded ceilings vaulting over a collection of finds ranging from red- and
Excursions & Activities Ancona/Conero
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- Category: CULTURE AND HISTORY
- Duration: 5.15 hour(s)
- Code: ANC01
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- Category: SEA & SUN
- Duration: 4.5 hour(s)
- Code: ANC16
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- Category: NATURAL WONDERS
- Duration: 4 hour(s)
- Code: ANC18
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- Category: NATURAL WONDERS
- Duration: 3 hour(s)
- Code: ANC19
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- Category: CULTURE AND HISTORY
- Duration: 5.5 hour(s)
- Code: ANC22
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- Category: SEA & SUN
- Duration: 4.5 hour(s)
- Code: ANC23
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- Category: SOMETHING SPECIAL
- Duration: 5 hour(s)
- Code: ANC24
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- Category: MSC PROTECTOURS
- Duration: 3.5 hour(s)
- Code: ANC06
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- Category: SCENIC ROUTE
- Duration: 2.5 hour(s)
- Code: ANC15
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TRAVEL TO THE Ancona/Conero CRUISE TERMINAL
Follow the signs marked “To car ferries/Traghetti”.
Only passengers with cruise tickets are allowed entry to Gate 2A for the Cruise Terminal.
Individual Guests with private cars shall be dropped off at Biglietteria Marittima in Via Einaudi SNC, where they will be able to take the MSC Shuttle bus to the Cruise Terminal.
MSC Shuttle is a free of charge service running from 12.40 hours to 20.00 hrs (last departure 19.40 hrs), from Biglietteria Marittima to the Cruise Terminal with one departure every 20 minutes approx., in both ways.
Disembarking Guests will be able to take the same shuttle bus and reach their car/driver at the Biglietteria Marittima.
Individual Guests who booked the MSC Car Valet Parking (provided by Frittelli Marittime ) will be able to reach Gate 2A within the port. Parking staff will collect the car dockside, safely store the keys and transfer it to a dedicated area. Cars will then be returned dockside at the Cruise Terminal at disembarkation. The rate includes insurance coverage.
If an individual Guest wishes to book the parking on site, they shall reach the Biglietteria Marittima, in Via Einaudi snc, and contact Box Frittelli (Box no.5 MINOAN LINES Grimaldi Lines).
- MSC Parking is bookable online up to 48 hours before your cruise departure. Bookings after the 48 hour deadline can be made directly with MSC Parking, and the same reduced rates will be applied when presenting your cruise travel documents
Ancona Centrale station is within walking distance (15 minutes) of the port. You can also travel to the port by bus or taxi (2 minutes, depending on trafffic).
A number of trains go to Ancona Marittima port station.
The Raffaelo Sanzio airport (www.aeroportodiancona.net) is about 15 kilometres from the port. It is served by taxi and by bus .
The bus takes you straight to Ancona Centrale railway station.
