Italy and Mexico are separated by an ocean and a gulf, and yet the two countries share much in common. They both speak a romance language, fly a similar green, white and red national flag, and when it comes to soccer — or football as it’s called in these birthplaces of pastas and tostadas — their mutual obsession is at fever pitch.

Leave it to California’s market-leading cruise line to make the list of commonalities between Italy and Mexico even longer — 1,061 feet longer, to be exact. The lengthiest and latest ship currently homeported in California, the 4,960-passenger Carnival Firenze brings “Fun, Italian Style” to the Pacific.