Baltic Intensive Cruise: Stockholm, Helsinki & Copenhagen

Copenhagen is known as a city of spires: The skyline of its medieval core is punctuated by the steeples of churches and towers of palaces, though a modern building boom has overtaken other parts of the city.

Visby boasts a rich history with tales of the Viking Age when it was a stronghold and trading post followed by a flourishing medieval period; today, however, Visby is best known as the Town of Roses and Ruins.

Lively, cosmopolitan Stockholm sports an appealing mix of modern Scandinavian architecture and trendy restaurants with fairytale palaces watched over by a Board of Beauty, responsible for preserving the city.

Lively, cosmopolitan Stockholm sports an appealing mix of modern Scandinavian architecture and trendy restaurants with fairytale palaces watched over by a Board of Beauty, responsible for preserving the city.

Helsinki is a blend of traditional and modern architecture and design, interwoven with the beauty of nature and a few quirky, purely Finnish touches—such as a church built inside a giant chunk of granite.

While in Tallinn, visit St. Olav’s Church, once the tallest building in the world (at least until 1625); then pull up a chair at one of the cafés in the charming town square, heart of the city for 800 years.

Riga’s Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage site, its winding, wobbly lanes are beautiful to wander through.

Walk the cobblestoned Old Town in Klaipėda and you’ll see its German heritage in the half-timbered architecture, beginning at Theatre Square where Hitler once spoke.

Gdańsk is a 1,000-year-old port city on the Baltic coast of Poland, which, together with the city of Gdynia and the town of Sopot, makes up the metropolitan area Trójmiasto otherwise known as “the Tricity”.

Boasting numerous picturesque fishing villages and medieval churches, the island of Bornholm and its capital city of Ronne appears to have gotten somewhat lost in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland.

Copenhagen is known as a city of spires: The skyline of its medieval core is punctuated by the steeples of churches and towers of palaces, though a modern building boom has overtaken other parts of the city.