02/05/2024
You asked, and you shall receive😉
Experience another spiritual journey with us this coming October on our Marian Pilgrimage tour.
📌TRAVEL DATE: October 8-25, 2024
💸Only $500 per person initial deposit to reserve slots
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📍INCLUSIONS:
✅Round trip airfare
✅4 star Hotel accommodation
✅Daily breakfast
✅Sight seeing tour
✅Entrances to selected sites
✅Filipino tour manager
✅Personalized travel kit and luggage tags
✅Tour chaplain
❌EXCLUSIONS:
🛑Visa fee
🛑Airline taxes
🛑Travel Insurance
🛑Lunches and drinks
🛑Tipping to driver and guide ($10/day/pax)
🛑Hotel porterage
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📝ITINERARY:
🚩D1/OCT 8 Arrival Rome
After immigration clearance at the airport, convey your luggage and board your private coach and proceed to city center to visit the most highlights of the city which include a view of the Colosseum, Arch of Constantine, Roman Forum, Monument Vittorio Emmanuelle II, Piazza de Venezia, Circus Maximus, the famous Fountain of Trevi and the Spanish Steps.
🚩D2/OCT 9 ROME
Get the most out of this once-in-a lifetime experience to attend the Papal Audience ceremony with our Pope Francis 0900H. Tickets to be picked up one day earlier at the Bronze gate. Then entrance to the Vatican Museum & Sistine Chapel and the St. Peter's basilica, one of the largest buildings in the world and the largest of the papal basilicas. You'll have lunch at Satiricus Ristorante Pizzeria then you can have your free time to roam around Rome. Return to the hotel for dinner then rest.
🚩D3/OCT 10 ROME-LANCIANO-SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO
After breakfast, proceed to Lanciano for orientation and visit San Francesco Church, site of the first Eucharistic Miracle. Mass in Santuario Miracolo Eucaristo in Lanciano. Then continue to San Giovanni Rotondo, visit the Shrine of St. padre Pio at the Convent of Santa Maria Della Grazie, then the Tomb and Crypt. Upon arrival, check-in at the hotel and rest. There are free praying activities then eat dinner and overnight will be at the hotel.
🚩D4/OCT 11 SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO-ASSISI
After breakfast, there will be a mass at 0800H Crypt "St. Maria delle Grazia". You'll have lunch at the hotel, afterwards get in the bus to continue your journey to Assisi the birthplace of St. Francis and St. Claire, one of Italy's patron saints. Upon arrival proceed to an orientation tour of this city and visit the Basilica of St. Francis and Santa Maria Degli Angeli. You will check-in at the hotel then have your dinner.
🚩D5/OCT 12 ASSISI-FLORENCE-PISA
In the morning, mass at 0800H at Capella S. Chiara then transfer to Florence, the capital of Italy's Tuscany region. Florence is the home to many masterpieces of Renaissance art and architechture. A guided tour will take you to one of its most iconic sights, the Duomo, a cathedral with a terracotta-tiled dom engineered by Brunelleschi and a bell tower by Giotto. The Galleria dell'Accademia displays Michelangelo's "David" sculpture. The Uffizi Gallery exhibits Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" and da Vinci's "Annunciation.
See the Renaissance treasures of the city. Visit the magnificent Santa Maria del Fiore, Giotto’s Bell Tower, the Baptistry’s Gate of Paradise, and the sculpture-studded Signoria Square. (no entrances included). Later on, drive to Pisa orientation to see the Piazza Miracoli and the iconic Leaning Tower, Romanesque Cathedral, and Baptistry. Some free time before check-in hotel and dinner.
🚩D6/OCT 13 PISA-MONACO-AVIGNON
Breakfast, drive to Monaco to see the Annunciation Cathedral where Prince Rainer & Princess Grace are buried. See the Casino Monte Carlo, the Rock, Port Hercule, and Larvotto Beach. Afterward continue to Avignon.
🚩D7/OCT 14 AVIGNON-LOURDES
After early breakfast, start at 07:30h and enjoy a scenic drive to Lourdes town in France – it’s known for the Sanctuaries Notre Dame de Lourdes, or the Domain, a major Catholic pilgrimage site. Explore the city of Lourdes by walking. Check in to the hotel and have dinner. You may want to join the candlelight procession in the
evening.
🚩D8/OCT 15 LOURDES
After breakfast, prepare for a walking tour in Lourdes (mass in Lourdes time to be confirmed). Full-day free time for Private Devotion. You may wish to go to the Sanctuary to visit the Underground. Basilica, walk the station of the Cross, take the Holy Bath, drink the water or wash your face in the Grotto, participate in the veneration of the sick pilgrim, or join a mass at the Grotto. Also, visit the Moulin de Boly or the birthplace of Bernadette Soubirous located in the heart of Lourdes. Dinner in the hotel.
🚩D9/OCT 16 LOURDES-BARCELONA
Breakfast and check out scenic drive to Barcelona, the cosmopolitan capital of Spain’s Catalonia region, which is known for its art and architecture. Upon arrival, see the Plaza Espana, Plaza Real, Plaza Catalunya, Olympic Stadium, Christopher Columbus Monument, Arch of Triumph, and La Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Barcelona’s most famous landmark, and Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece. (no entrance included, private
guide for Barcelona half day tour)
🚩D10/OCT 17 BARCELONA
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning full-day guided visit to the Montserrat Monastery to see the famous 12th-century Romanesque carving of Virgen Moreneta, the Black Virgin. Mass at Montserrat. Lunch in hotel then free time in Barcelona.
🚩D11/OCT 18 BARCELONA-ZARAGOZA-BURGOS
Breakfast, and departure for Zaragoza which is the capital of northeastern Spain’s Aragon region. Overlooking the Ebro River in the city center is baroque Nuestra Señora del Pilar Basilica, a famous pilgrimage site with a shrine to the Virgin Mary and multiple domes. Upon arrival, see the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, considered the Patroness of the country and the Spanish Civil Guard. Mass in Zaragoza, time to be confirmed. Then continue to Burgos, for dinner and hotel check-in. Some free time to explore the area.
🚩D12/OCT 19 BURGOS-SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
After breakfast, explore Burgos a provincial capital in Spain’s autonomous community of Castile and León, is marked by its intact medieval architecture. Its most recognizable landmark is the French Gothic Cathedral of St. Mary, whose 3 main doorways are flanked by ornamented bell towers. Inside is the Chapel of Condestable, decorated with figures of saints, and the tomb of El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar), the 11th-century military commander. Visit the Burgos Gothic Cathedral. Later on, transfer to Santiago de Compostela for hotel check-in and dinner.
🚩D13/OCT 20 SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA-FATIMA
Breakfast in the hotel and check out
Santiago de Compostela - city tour of this historical city will take you to the entrance of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral including the museum, Plaza del Obradoiro, Monasterio de San Martin Pinario, Convento de San Francisco, Fuente de Los Caballos, and the Palacio de Raxoi. Then transfer to Fatima hotel for dinner and overnight. Join the Candlelight procession in the evening.
🚩D14/OCT 21 FATIMA
After breakfast, sightseeing tour to the beautiful views of the Basilica where the tombs of Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta is located; the Chapel of the Apparitions the place where Our Lady appeared, the Church of the Holy Trinity, the exposition “Fatima Light and Peace” where are the offers left by the pilgrims. Later visit Aljustrel, the village where the shepherds were born and visit the Stations of the Cross and the Calvary, the site of Our Lady’s 4th apparition and the place where the children received the first and third visit of the “Angel of Peace”. Mass in Capelinha 15:30H. The afternoon is free for personal devotions. You may explore the Sanctuary and the Great White Basilica and join the candlelight procession in the evening. At the end of the day, return to the hotel for dinner and overnight.
🚩D15/OCT 22 FATIMA-AVILA-MADRID
A memorable experience tour concludes today after breakfast and morning private
devotion. Transfer to Avila unch and half city tour Transfer to hotel in Madrid.
🚩D16/OCT 23 GOODBYE SPAIN!
A memorable experience tour concludes today after breakfast and morning private
devotion. Transfer to Madrid for city tour and some free time before a transfer to the airport for your flight back home.
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