The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
In port at Vienne, the bucket-list move is Vienne City Tram: Temple of Augustus, the Cathedral & the Mont Pipet Belvedere. Below: 4 bucket-list things to do on a Vienne port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Ride the City Tram through the old Allobroges capital - the Pyramide, the Temple of Augustus and Livia, the Cathedrale Saint-Maurice - then up to the Mont Pipet belvedere for the view straight down onto the Roman theatre and the Rhone valley
Book itVienne City Tram: Temple of Augustus, the Cathedral & the Mont Pipet Belvedere€9 per person (about $10)
Climb the near-vertical right bank above the Rhone by tram through Cote-Rotie, the terraced vineyard that gives the northern Rhone its name, with commentary on the terroir from a guide
Book itCote-Rotie Tour: City Tram through the Terraced Vineyards from Ampuis€9 per person (about $10)
Walk seven hectares of excavated Roman Vienna across the river - streets, houses and workshops of one of the richest cities in Roman Gaul - then the museum holding its mosaics, wall paintings and 1,160 displayed objects
Book itGallo-Roman Museum & Archaeological Site at Saint-Romain-en-Gal€8 per person (about $9)
Climb the tiers of one of the largest theatres in the Roman empire - built 40-50 AD into the slope of Mont Pipet, second in Gaul only to Autun, and still the stage for Jazz a Vienne every July
Book itTheatre Antique de Vienne€3 per person (about $3)
Your day in VienneNothing picked yet — tick what you fancy
$0for two, booked direct
Now plan the rest of it
You know what to do on the day. Here is the trip it belongs to —
each one opens as a whole plan, not a list: where to fly in, every port, what it runs.
