ITALY CATHOLIC TOUR
SHROUD OF TURIN 2010
MAY 10 - 21, 2010
-TURIN - PADUA - VENICE - FLORENCE - SIENA - ORVIETO - ASSISI -
- LORETO - LANCIANO - ROME -
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ITINERARY
Depart from your gateway city, intercontinental flight to Italy; Turin, meals served on board of the plane.
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Day 2 ARRIVAL - TURIN, ITALY
Meeting with your tour escort and head to Turin - time permitting group will have a city tour of Turin including holy mass at the St. Francis de Sales (or Capella Pinardi) and visit to the sites associated with St. Dominic Salvo, and St. John Bosco including the Don Bosco’s rooms, Basilica…learn a lot from Salesian fathers. Check in to hotel, dinner and overnight in Turin.
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Day 3 - TURIN - PADUA
After breakfast we will head to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptists where again after Jubilee Year Shroud of Turin will be again on display for public. This will be unique chance for all of us to be amazed with the historical and scientific details concerning piece of linen cloth; where it has travelled, how can we still see the face on it, blood stains, how old it is…and many other intriguing questions will be answered right here as we watch the presentation and piece of the burial cloth! Same afternoon group will leave Turin, leave for Padua. Check in to hotel for dinner and overnight in the city of St. Anthony.
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Day 4 PADUA - VENICE - FLORENCE
This morning after visit to the basilica of St. Anthony, “Il Santo” we will leave for excursion to Venice, we start with the Cathedral of St. Marc celebrating holy mass. Sightseeing will include St. Marc Square, Bridge of Sighs and a walk to the Grand Canal. City tour will include inside visit to the Doge’s Palace and for the end some free time for shopping by Rialto Bridge, souvenir shops, restaurants for lunch. Weather permitting we will enjoy the gondola ride along the Venice canals before in the early evening we will return to the mainland and depart for Florence. Dinner and overnight at our hotel/restaurant in Florence.
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Day 5 FLORENCE
Today we are on walking city tour of Florence; sightseeing will include Santa Croce, Cathedral, world renowned baptistery Gates of Heaven, Church of St. Ambrose which houses two Eucharistic Miracles, where we will celebrate Holy mass. Free time in Florence, afternoon for shopping, visit to the Academy with famous David by Michelangelo….. In the evening we meet for dinner in one of the restaurants in the center.
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Day 6 FLORENCE - SIENA - ORVIETO - ASSISI
Breakfast in Florence and we leave for Siena. Stop for visit, private Holy mass in the St. Dominic’s basilica. Visit will include the house where St. Catherine was born and the Cathedral. Tour will end on the main square of the Siena where their horse race takes place, “Il Palio”. Same afternoon continue to Orvieto, another Eucharistic Miracle, hosted here in the Cathedral but originates from Bolsena. At the end of the day we are in Assisi, on time for dinner and overnight in Assisi.
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Day 7 ASSISI - CASCIA
This morning we will begin exploring Assisi and learning about St. Francis and his life. Our guided tour will start from church of Santa Chiara to see The Cross that spoke to St. Francis and pray his prayer before same Crucifix. We will learn more about St. Claire the founder of Poor Claire’s and see her incorrupt body. Walk along the streets of Assisi will take you to the focal point of your arrival to Assisi – Basilica of St. Francis and chapel with the tomb of the Saint. You will celebrate private Holy Mass for your group here in basilica of St. Francis before going down to the “Santa Maria degli Angeli” to the basilica with "Porziuncola" one of three restored churches by young Francis that nowadays is embraced by basilica of St. Mary of the Angels.
In the afternoon after visit of Assisi and lunch break we will leave for half day excursion to Cascia – to St. Rita, Saint of the Impossible this year it is 110 anniversary of her canonization. Return to Assisi dinner at our hotel.
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Day 8 ASSISI - LORETO - LANCIANO - ROME
In the morning after breakfast we will for Loreto, to the Shrine of the House of the Holy Family, legend says that the house was miraculously transferred from Nazareth. "The Angel of the lord declared unto Mary, and she conceived of the Holy Spirit". Beautiful Piazza della Madonna with the Basilica of The Our Lady of Loreto embraces the ruins of the house, one can see the actual place of the event, Annunciation. After a visit and Holy Mass in the Basilica of Loreto you will continue to Lanciano. Visit one of the most impressive Shrine of the Eucharistic Miracle dating from 8th century. After prayer before the Monstrance with the Precious Relics we will head towards Rome. Dinner and our overnight will be in our hotel in Rome.
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Day 9 CHRISTIAN TOUR OF ROME
We will start our Christian tour of Rome. First to have on our schedule today is Holy mass at St. Peter’s basilica and our visits today will include St. Mary Major basilica and St. John Lateran. This is the Cathedral of Rome and was Papal residence from the 5C until the papacy departed to Avignon in France. Today we will also see nearby Holy Staircase (Scala Sancta) actual stairs that Jesus Christ walked on the day he went to Pilate and the St. Paul Outside the Walls basilica and Domitilla catacombs as one of the largest on the Via Apia.
Dinner and overnight at our hotel in Rome
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Day 10 VATICAN
Today we have an early breakfast to be on time for the general audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the St. Peter's Square. Following is visit to the Vatican
Museums where we will see art masterpieces of Michelangelo, Bernini… We will walk through Geographical maps Gallery, Sistine Chapel with the magnificent fresco of The Last Judgment and many more halls and rooms filled with Christian art, history and inheritance of all civilization. Same day is our visit to the heart of Vatican State, St. Peter's basilica, and underground burial stones with the tombs of St. Peter and Pope John Paul II. After some free time in the late afternoon for shopping we end our day in our hotel with dinner.
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Day 11 HISTORICAL ROME
After a good night rest and breakfast we will leave hotel for Palatine Hill nearby visit to the magnificent Coliseum and walk through the thousands years of history - walk through the Roman Forum and the Imperial Forum. Here we will view Roman temples, which are now used as Catholic churches, palaces, arches, ancient streets of Rome. Same afternoon tour will continue to Pantheon, Santa Maria Sopra Minerva Church……..
We will end our day in one of the restaurants, typical Italian dinner, farewell dinner.
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Day 12 DEPARTURE HOME
Early morning transfer to Rome International Airport for flight back home, arrival will be on a same day.
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INCLUDES
+Round trip airfares, tax included
+3* hotels or convent houses of the same category, superior tourist class hotels
+Dinner and breakfast daily, drinks at the dinner
+City tours with local guides in Turin, Padua, Venice, Florence, Siena, Assisi, Rome
+Tour escort from Turin airport – Rome airport
+Entrance fees to:
*Shroud of Turin exposition
*Doge’s Palace in Venice
*Santa Croce Florence
*Coliseum in Rome
*Vatican Museums Rome
*Catacombs Domitilla in Rome (with the mass)
+High class tourist coach
+Daily holy mass arrangements, including the Audience with Pope Benedict XVI
+Farwell dinner in Rome, in typical Italian restaurant, drinks included
+Whispers, headsets for city tours in Florence, Rome and Assisi
+Porterage of luggage in/out hotels
NOT INCLUDED
+Tips for guides and drivers
+Daily third meal, lunch
+Travel insurance
+GONDOLA in Venice
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