Cruises from Tripoli

Tripoli is the capital and largest city in Libya. Founded in the 1st millennium B.C., Tripoli today is located in the NW part of the country on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean and forming a bay. It has distinctive old and new quarters. The old quarter, the Medina, still retains much of its old-world ambience as numerous historical structures have survived. These include the Marcus Aurelius triumphal arch (2nd century A.D.