Rome, Assisi, Florence, Padova, Venice, Loreto, Lanciano, San Giovanni Rotondo, Naples, Pompei, Città del Vaticano
- Duration: 12 Days / 11 Nights
Arrive at the international Airport of Fiumicino.
Upon arrival in Rome meet and greet by the representative of CHR Travel and transfer to the Hotel.
Lunch at local restaurant or hotel.
In the afternoon orientation guided tour to the archeological area of Rome with the
ColosseoThe largest amphitheater in Rome was erected by Vespasian in the early years of his reign (69-79 AD) in the valley between Palatine, Esquiline and Celio, in the area that had previously been occupied by the artificial lake of the “Domus Aurea “by Nero.
Next to the Colosseo you will see the Roman Forum. In ancient times the forum was a swampy area. Only from the end of the seventh century BC, after the reclamation of the valley, did the Roman Forum begin to take shape, destined to remain the center of public life for over a millennium.
Over the centuries the various monuments were built: first the buildings for political, religious and commercial activities, then during the second century BC. the civil basilicas, where judicial activities took place.
Mass in a local church.
Overnight in Rome
Meals: lunch, dinner.
Breakfast at Hotel
departure from Rome to reach Assisi is known all over the world as the city of peace: this denomination is due to the message of peace and brotherhood that the history of San Francesco has linked forever to the place.
Here, in fact, was born and lived that young man who, driven by his vocation, abandoned everything to devote himself to a life of poverty and prayer, whose example
became a model for many others devoted to the same principles.
Lunch at hotel.
In the afternoon visit to the Basilica The church dedicated to Santa Maria degliAngeli, probably built in the 4th century and subsequently passed under the ownership of the Benedictine monks, takes its name from the area called “Portiuncula”, which literally indicates the small portion of land on which it stood.
Continue the visit to Assisi and at the Basilica of San Francesco. The Basilica is made up of two superimposed churches, the upper Basilica and the lower Basilica, which are grandiose in both internal decorations. The Basilica of San Francesco is the sacred place par excellence of Assisi, since here the friars of Assisi keep the remains of San Francesco. Since 2000 it has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Mass in the Basilica.
Overnight in Assisi/Santa Maria degli Angeli
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Breakfast at Hotel
Transfer to Florence and lunch at hotel or local restaurant.
In the afternoon guided tour of the city. Complex of Santa Maria del Fiore, made up of monuments gathered today all under the auspices of a single large widespread museum consisting of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Brunelleschi’s Dome, Giotto’s Bell Tower, the Baptistery of San Giovanni, the Crypt of Santa Reparata and the Opera Museum of the Duomo.
After the visit, mass in a Florentine church.
Overnight in Florence
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Breakfast at Hotel
Transfer to Padova.
Lunch at hotel or local restaurant.
The Pontifical Basilica of S. Antonio, which the Padovans call Il Santo, is the main monument in Padua and one of the greatest masterpieces of art in the world. Recognized by the Holy See as an international sanctuary, it is also one of the most famous and popular
places of worship of Christianity.
Mass in the Basilica.
Continue the visit to the famous Cappella degli Scrovegni.The chapel dedicated to Santa Maria dellaCarità, frescoed between 1303 and 1305 by Giotto on behalf of Enrico degli Scrovegni is one of the greatest masterpieces of Western art. The narration completely
covers the walls with the stories of the Virgin and Christ, while the grandiose Universal Judgment is painted on the
counter-façade, with which the story of human salvation ends.
Overnight in Padova
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Transfer to Venice
Lunch at a restaurant
Arrive at Tronchetto and transfer to Venice by boat.
Meet English speaking guide for walking tour of Venice to visit the Whisper Bridge, San Marco Square with the Basilica of San Marco, the Tower Bell and the Doge Palace. Mass in a church. Time permitting, visit to a glass factory. We can’t miss a gondola tour of about 30 minutes.
Transfer by boat back to Tronchetto, return by bus to the hotel in Padua.
Overnight stay in Padua
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Transfer to Loreto and lunch at hotel or a local restaurant.
Loreto seat of an important Sanctuary.
According to tradition, the Santa Casa di Loreto is part of the house of the Virgin, which was built from a cave carved into the rock and from a room in front. The devotional tradition tells that the transport from Nazareth was the work of the angels, but recent researches on an archaeological and philological basis, propose the founded hypothesis that the Holy House was transported in a providential way with a transport by ship, under divine protection. Some indications suggest that the authors of the transport were not the angels of heaven, but a family called Angeli, a noble Byzantine family named Angeli, who
saved the materials of the Casa della Madonna from Muslim devastation and had them transported to Loreto.
Mass in the Sanctuary.
Overnight in Loreto
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Departure to Lanciano and lunch at hotel or local restaurant.
Lanciano is the seat of an Eucharistic miracle that occurred about the eighth century.
One day a monk while celebrating Holy Mass was assaulted by doubt about the real presence of Jesus in the Holy
Eucharist. Having spoken the words of consecration on bread and wine, suddenly, before his eyes he saw the bread turn into Flesh, the wine into Blood. Visit the Church of the Miracle and mass.
Continue to San Giovanni Rotondo.
Overnight in San Giovanni Rotondo
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Early morning visit to the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie with the adjoining convent is now universally known for having been the place where lived and died, from July 28, 1916, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Although already from the early 1920s there has been an ever-increasing number of pilgrims who climb Mount Gargano and that the inadequacy of the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie is
evident to everyone to manage this “needy people” (so much so that Padre Pio he will be forced to celebrate outdoors several times), the works for the Sanctuary began only in 1956. The church took shape under the careful direction of the architect Giuseppe Gentile di Boiano, and was consecrated on 1 July 1959.
Mass in the Sanctuary.
Enjoy lunch at a restaurant on the way to Naples.
Overnight in Naples
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Guided tour of Naples: The metropolitan cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta is a monumental basilica as well as a cathedral and seat of the archdiocese of the city of Naples.
The cathedral includes two other buildings of worship built independently of the cathedral: the basilica of Santa Restituta, which houses the oldest baptistery in the west, that of San Giovanni in Fonte, and the real chapel of the treasure of San Gennaro, which preserves the relics of the patron saint of the city.
We continue to discover the precious Neapolitan treasures by visiting the San Severo Chapel where the Veiled Christ is kept, one of the most famous and evocative works in the world. The life-size sculpted marble statue, made by a young Neapolitan artist, Giuseppe Sanmartino, represents Our Lord Jesus Christ dead, covered by a transparent shroud made from the same block as the statue “.
Lunch at local restaurant.In the afternoon visit the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of the Holy Shrine of Pompeii. Mass in the Sanctuary.
Overnight in Naples
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Transfer to Rome and enjoy lunch at a restaurant
After lunch visit toPontifical Shrine of the Holy Step among the best known and most illustrious in the Catholic world. It rises near the Basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano and houses the precious chapel of the Popes called Sancta Sanctorum, where the image of the SS. Savior. The Scala Santa owes its name to the 28 steps that lead to the chapel and which rise to their knees in veneration for the Passion of Jesus.According to an ancient Christian tradition, the Empress St. Helena in 326 had the Staircase repeatedly ascended by Jesus on the day of his death sentence transported to Rome from the Praetorium of Pilate to Jerusalem. For this reason it was called Scala Pilati or Scala Sancta.The Basilica of Saint John in Lateran is the mater et caput of all the churches of Rome and the world
Overnight in Rome
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Breakfast at Hotel
Morning devoted to the visit of Vatican City
The Vatican Museums (Italian: MuseiVaticani; Latin: MuseaVaticana) are Christian art museums located within the city boundaries of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by popes throughout the centuries including several of the most renowned Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.
The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on displayand currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480
The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, or simply St. Peter’s Basilica, is an Italian Renaissance church in Vatican City, the papal enclave within the city of Rome. Lunch at a Restaurant . In the afternoon visit of Christian Rome. The Catacombs of San Callisto are among the largest and most important in Rome. They arose in the middle of the second century and are part of a cemetery complex that occupies an area of 15 hectares of land, with a network of tunnels almost 20 kilometers long, on different floors, and reach a depth of more than 20 meters. In them, dozens of martyrs, 16 popes and many Christians were buried. Mass in the Catacumbs.
Basical of Saint Paul outside the Walls
The Basilica of San Paolo, with its imposing Byzantine structure, is the largest patriarchal basilica in Rome after St. Peter’s in the Vatican.It arose in the first centuries of Christianity on the place where St. Paul was buried, when in 313 the emperor Constantine promulgated the Edict of Milan, with which he put an end to persecutions against Christians and gave them freedom of worship, favoring the construction of places of prayer.
Overnight in Rome
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Transfer by coach to the International airport Leonardo da Vinci – Fiumicino
Tour ends with unforgettable memories.
Meals: breakfast
