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The Iberian Peninsula and Fortified cities of the Atlantic.

Lisbon - Honfleur

Dates:
8/5/2026
to  19/5/2026

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12
days
11
nights on board
Starting from*
AU$9,000
per person
30% Ponant Bonus

With featured guest Franck Ferrand.

From Lisbon to Honfleur, PONANT invites you aboard l'Austral for a 12-day cruise, that will take you along the Portuguese Spanish and French Atlantic coastlines.

Throughout your journey, you will benefit from an excursion included per person per port of call, to choose from a selection offered by PONANT. On this cruise, explore the Santiago de Compostela site from Vigo, visit the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, or discover the Mont Saint-Michel from Saint-Malo. The diversity of expériences on offer promises you intense and varied moments (to discover the full range of excursions, go to the itinerary tab).

From the port of Leixões, you will visit Porto. The capital of Portugal's northern region, this “city of granite” is renowned for its wine but also for its remarkable historic centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Your journey will continue to Galicia and the city of Vigo, the biggest fishing port in Spain. Not far from here, Santiago de Compostela awaits you. This unmissable pilgrimage destination is home to a number of monuments from the Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque periods, testimony to its illustrious past.

L'Austral will then head for the capital of the Spanish Basque Country, Bilbao. Between daring architecture and the continuation of its ancestral traditions, you will be able to witness the city’s unique energy.

After a special moment in the wine capital of the world, Bordeaux, you visit the beautiful fortified town of Talmont-sur-Gironde before saluting the Cordouan lighthouse, a guardian of light designed to guide sailors at the entrance to the Gironde estuary.

Belle-Île-en-Mer, to the south of Brittany, will be one of the key ports of call on this stimulating voyage. The Impressionist painter Claude Monet lived for a while in the village of Kervilahouen on this island. 

During your stop in Saint-Malo, a town famous for the legendary Route du Rhum yacht race, lose yourself in the diversity of its heritage, stroll along its rampart and fall under the charm of the city of privateers. 

After stopping off in Guernsey, you head for the pretty Normandy port of Honfleur, where you disembark.


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A cruise along the Atlantic coastlines of three countries: Portugal, Spain and France. UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the historic centre of Porto from Leixoes; Santiago de Compostela (Old Town) from Vigo, the...


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Partner - Franck Ferrand

Our guest of honour

Partner - Franck Ferrand

Franck Ferrand

From Lisbon to Honfleur, the entire western coastline of the continent, the Atlantic balcony of the Old World, unfurls its ribbon of cliffs, beaches and granite rocks. Historians refer to these coasts as the “Celtic arc”, populated in the Neolithic period by stones erected by a vanished civilization: that of the megaliths. We'll be evoking this mysterious world, as well as the great sailors who, from the ports of the Ponant, set out to conquer new worlds: Spanish and Portuguese navigators like Magellan and Vasco de Gama, whalers from the Bay of Biscay, Breton sailors, privateers from Saint-Malo, explorers who left from Honfleur like Jacques Cartier. To explore the shores of the Atlantic from the ocean is to be nourished by a very ancient history, full of iodine and sea spray, drama and dreams.

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Choose your stateroom

Choose your stateroom

Superior Stateroom Deck 3
 

(21 m²)

From AU$9,000 per person
30% Ponant Bonus

Deluxe Stateroom Deck 3
 

(18 m²)

From AU$9,740 per person
30% Ponant Bonus

Prestige Stateroom Deck 4
 

(18 m²)

From AU$10,810 per person
30% Ponant Bonus

Prestige Stateroom Deck 5
 

(18 m²)

From AU$11,330 per person
30% Ponant Bonus

Prestige Stateroom Deck 6
 

(18 m²)

From AU$11,970 per person
30% Ponant Bonus

Deluxe Suite Deck 6
 

(27 m²)

From AU$16,640 per person
30% Ponant Bonus

Prestige Suite Deck 5
 

(37 m²)

From AU$22,480 per person
30% Ponant Bonus

Prestige Suite Deck 6
 

(37 m²)

From AU$23,640 per person
30% Ponant Bonus

Owner's Suite Deck 6
 

(45 m²)

From AU$38,440 per person



Complete your trip

Complete your trip

Shore Excursions, Overlands & Pre/Post Programmes
To complete your voyage, PONANT can organise a range of shore excursions, pre & post cruise activities and packages, plus transfers.


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