Star Collector: Palates & Palettes of Northern Spain and France

Cruise overview

Impressionist artists like Monet and Renoir spent a lifetime trying to capture the beauty and soul of western France. It took Julia Child just one meal in Normandy to fall in love with French cuisine. And this is just one of the alluring regions you’ll visit on this sensory journey to Northern Spain and France. Follow the Comino to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, a pilgrimage site for a thousand years. Sip cider in Gijon at the heart of “Green Spain,” a place even many Spaniards are unfamiliar with. And treat your palate to Basque cuisine that is neither Spanish nor French but something else entirely. You’ll see hills covered in vineyards and chateaux in Bordeaux, Monet’s famous water lilies in Giverny, Mont St. Michel abbey perched on a tiny island like a wedding cake ornament, and as many Parisian wonders as you can absorb with a two-night stay in Rouen. Delicious. Moving. Awe-inspiring. This voyage is all that and more.