Corinth Canal Greece
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Atlas Ocean Voyages (5 Cruises)
Aurora Expeditions (1 Cruises)
CroisiEurope (2 Cruises)
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Emerald Waterways (49 Cruises)
Emerald Azzurra
36 Cruises
| 29 May | 20 days | One-way from Piraeus-Athens to Venice |
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| 29 May | 22 days | One-way from Piraeus-Athens to Venice |
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| 26 June | 12 days | One-way from Dubrovnik to Piraeus-Athens |
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| 27 June | 10 days | One-way from Dubrovnik to Piraeus-Athens |
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| 24 May | 15 days | One-way from Venice to Piraeus-Athens |
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| 31 May | 8 days | One-way from Dubrovnik to Piraeus-Athens |
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| 22 July | 15 days | One-way from Venice to Piraeus-Athens |
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| 29 July | 8 days | One-way from Dubrovnik to Piraeus-Athens |
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Emerald Kaia
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Lindblad Expeditions (13 Cruises)
National Geographic Orion
13 Cruises
| 7 April | 13 days | One-way from Barcelona to Piraeus-Athens |
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| 7 April | 20 days | One-way from Barcelona to Piraeus-Athens |
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| 13 May | 8 days | One-way from Lavrion to Zadar |
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| 20 May | 8 days | One-way from Zadar to Piraeus-Athens |
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| 6 June | 21 days | One-way from Piraeus-Athens to Barcelona |
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| 13 June | 13 days | One-way from Lavrion to Barcelona |
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SeaDream Yacht Club (35 Cruises)
Seadream I
15 Cruises
Seadream II
20 Cruises
| 23 July | 11 days | One-way from Piraeus-Athens to Civitavecchia-Rome |
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| 23 July | 12 days | One-way from Piraeus-Athens to Civitavecchia-Rome |
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Windstar Cruises (45 Cruises)
Star Legend
45 Cruises
| 26 March | 15 days | One-way from Barcelona to Piraeus-Athens |
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| 26 March | 14 days | One-way from Barcelona to Piraeus-Athens |
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Frequently Asked Questions
No, and that is the point: the Corinth Canal is transited, not visited from a quay. For 6.4 kilometres the ship glides between two limestone walls separating the Peloponnese from mainland Greece.
6.4 kilometres long, about 21.4 metres wide at the base and a maximum draught of 7.3 metres. Those dimensions explain why only narrow hulls can pass through.
Only narrow vessels. The Braemar, a 195-metre ship carrying some 900 passengers, set the record in October 2019 for the longest vessel to squeeze through, with a few tens of centimetres of clearance on each side.
Right forward or right aft, where the perspective of the cut stretches from one gulf to the other. Passengers crowd in as soon as the transit is announced: arrive early if you want the rail.
The ship slows to walking pace, and larger vessels follow a tug. Traffic runs one way in convoys: allow twenty to forty minutes depending on how the convoy is organised.
The waterway was completed in 1893. The idea goes back to Periander, tyrant of Corinth in the seventh century BCE, and Nero began excavation in AD 67 before the project died with him.
A paved trackway along which ships were hauled from one sea to the other, built by Periander after he balked at the scale of digging a canal. It was the solution that lasted twenty-five centuries.
Yes, itineraries using the canal often include a stop or excursion to nearby ancient Corinth: the agora, the Doric columns of the Temple of Apollo and the Peirene fountain, below the Acrocorinth. Saint Paul preached and wrote here.
Barely. Commercial traffic long ago abandoned a channel too tight for modern freighters: around 15,000 vessels pass each year, mostly sailing boats, yachts and unusual craft.
Very much. The rock walls slide past a few metres from the balconies, road and rail bridges pass above the masts, and you sometimes glimpse a bungee jumper waving at the passengers. It is a spectacle that needs no explaining.
