Make your way to your local airport, where you will board your overnight flight(s). Your meals will be served on board.

You will arrive at the Rome airport and meet your driver in the Arrivals’ Hall, from which you will be transferred to your hotel for check-in. After Mass, enjoy a social with drinks where you can meet your fellow pilgrims. Then, enjoy a welcome dinner before overnight in your hotel.

After breakfast, we will depart Rome to visit the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo, which serves as a summer residence and vacation retreat for the Pope. We will tour the grounds and the museum. After lunch, you will enjoy a wine tasting and a tour of the town of Castel Gandolfo, before returning to Rome for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, you will visit the Vatican Museum, where you can see the Tapestry Gallery, Raphael Rooms, and Sistine Chapel. After lunch, continue down the Appian Way, one of the earliest roads built in ancient Rome to the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls and the Catacombs. Dinner and overnight in Rome.

After breakfast, we will travel to the Basilica di San Clemente al Laterano, one of the most archeologically significant churches in all of Rome. We will have a tour of the Church and grounds before celebrating Holy Mass. After lunch, we will enjoy a walking tour of the city with the opportunity to see many different historical sites—the Coliseum, Forum, Mamertine Prison, St. Peter in Chains, Capitoline Hill, and the Piazza Venezia. After the tour, we’ll return to our hotel for dinner and overnight.

This morning we attend the Papal Audience in St. Peter’s Square or at the Audience Hall. The Audience is celebrated each Wednesday by His Holiness, Pope Francis (pending the papal schedule). Afterwards, we’ll attend lunch at the Centro Internazionale Animazione Missionaria, which has a beautiful vista overlooking the city. In the afternoon you will have a Vatican Mosaic Studio private tour (Pending Confirmation of Availability) followed by a tour of St. Peter’s Basilica. We’ll return to our hotel for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, we will have a walking tour of the Spanish Quarter which will include the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, and the Spanish steps. Also on this tour will be stops at a few churches which contain famous works of the prominent Renaissance painter, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. This afternoon, visit the oldest of the four major Basilicas in Rome, the Archbasilica of St. John the Lateran, the cathedral church and seat of the Bishop of Rome. Cross the street to the very steps that lead up to the praetorium of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem which Jesus climbed on His way to trial during his Passion. Next we will visit the Basilica of St. Mary Major, dedicated to Our Blessed Mother. Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast we will depart for the Rome Airport for your trip back to the USA.

*206 Tours Disclaimer:
Occasionally local religious and national holidays, weather, traffic conditions and other events may necessitate changes in the sequence of events or the missing of certain events/places. Though every effort will be made to follow the itinerary, it should be considered as an indication, rather than a contract of events and places to be visited.