Proposal 5 - Pilgrimage tour - 12 days/ 11 nights

Arrival at   Rome Fiumicino Airport and meeting   with our   Tour Escort.

Transfer   by private coach to your hotel. Accommodation .

Rome by   night with local   guide and   visit   of Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Pantheon,

Navona   Square   with the Four River Fountain, Bernini’s masterpiece.

Welcome   dinner at restaurant close to Piazza Navona  and overnight.    

 

After   breakfast you   will meet the local guide for a full day   visit of Rome including St. Mary Major Basilica, St. John’s in Lateran Basilica and   Holy Stairs, Vatican Museum with Sistine Chapel and   St. Peter’s Basilica. Back to hotel for   dinner and overnight.

 

After breakfast you   will meet the   local guide for a full day visit of Rome including St. Peter in Chains Basilica, the   Imperial   Forum, Coliseum, the Capitol, St. Paul’s outside the Walls Basilica and the Catacombs. Back to hotel and overnight.

 

After breakfast departure for the visit of Subiaco for the   visit of the Monastery of Saint Benedict.

The beauty of the shrine, which comprises two churches one above the other and several chapels consist particularly in the artistic irregular arrangement of walls, vault and steps which are almost identified with the rocks. Upper Church, Lower Church, St Benedit’s Gotto, where Benedict retired to hermitic life for three years .Then visit   of Santa Scolastica’s  Monastery    that is the only monastery of the twelve ones wanted by St. Benedict along the valley of the Aniene not to have been destroyed by earthquake or the Saracen invasions. The Benedictine motto "Ora et Labora" is written and  leads to the first or Renaissance cloister, which goes back to the XVI century. Continue to Montecassino and   visit of Montecassino’s Abbey    founded in the period between 525 and 529 by Benedict. 

Continue to Sorrento   and accommodation at   hotel. Dinner and   overnight.

 

After breakfast you will reach the   Harbour of   Naples and by ferry boat you will reach the Island of

Capri. Half day visit   with local guide of Anacapri   with Axel Munthe’s famous Villa and Capri   with the famous Piazzetta. Time   for shopping and then transfer by ferry back to Sorrento.

 

 

After   breakfast departure   for Pietralcina and  visit  of Padre Pio’s   Natal Home .  Continue  on to   San Giovanni   Rotondo. Accommodation in hotel dinner and overnight.

 

After breakfast   at hotel  half day  visit with local guide   of the places of Padre Pio.

In the afternoon visit with escort   of Monte San’Angelo not far from San Giovanni Rotondo and

Back to   hotel for   dinner and   overnight.

 

After breakfast departure for the   visit   of Lanciano and visit of the Sanctuary of Eucharistic

Miracle. Continue to Loreto for the visit of the Holy House of Loreto, one of the most Marian

Shrines in Europe. Accommodation at hotel, dinner and   overnight. 

 

After breakfast departure for Cascia. Visit   of the Basilica of St. Rita a great evangelizer. On solemn and meaningful atmosphere of the Christmas night, she offered her youth to God, wearing the Augustinian habit, and the following year in the same solemnity, she confirmed her religious vows. After the visit

continue to Assisi , accommodation at hotel , dinner and overnight.

 

After   breakfast half day visit   with   local guide of St. Mary of the Angel’s Basilica,   St.

Francis’ and   St. Clare’s Basilicas . Time free for   personal activities.

Dinner and overnight at hotel

 

After breakfast   transfer to   Rome with stop in Orvieto. Visit    with local guide of the Duomo  

Where the Chapel of the Corporal SS.mo is located, commemorated

the miracle that happens above the Corporal became the host feces and vermilion flesh and blood. After the visit continue on to Rome and   accommodation in hotel.

Farewell dinner in a restaurant   and   overnight .

 

After breakfast transfer to Fiumicino Airport  for departure.