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• Roundtrip airfare from Mpls.  Fuel surcharges and taxes subject to change 

• Call for other departure city prices 

• Hotel accommodations based on double occupancy 

• Breakfast and dinner daily 

• Professional guide/escort entire journey 

• Museum/sites entrance tickets 

• Daily Mass and/or spiritual opportunities

*Tips (porters, drivers, guides, waitstaff, hotels, etc.)

* Headsets

• Lunches, extra meals, beverages 

• Excess baggage 

• Travel Insurance Protection: JeriCo recommends you purchase a travel protection plan that offers Trip Cancellation/Trip Interruption, Emergency Medical and Emergency Evacuation/ Repatriation, Trip Delay, and Baggage Delay.

Itinerary and site visits subject to change. Current valid Passport is required -- must be valid for 6 months beyond date of return. Your airline ticket cannot be issued without this information. 

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Hop aboard to begin an adventure of a lifetime! Our flight will depart from MSP airport.

Arrive in Rome FCO Airport

Arrive in Rome FCO Airport. Meet your local guide and enjoy a tour of Piazza Navona, Basilica of Sant’Agostino outside the piazza with the tomb of St. Monica and Santa Maria sopra Minerva near the Pantheon that houses the body of St. Catherine of Siena. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel

After breakfast at the hotel, continue exploring Rome.

Visit Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

We'll begin our day at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, one of the four major basilicas in Rome.

Tour the Colosseum

Explore the iconic Colosseum, an ancient amphitheater where gladiator games were held.

Visit San Pietro in Vincoli

Conclude the tour at San Pietro in Vincoli, a 5th-century basilica in Rome best known for housing Michelangelo’s celebrated statue of Moses.

Attend Mass

Dinner

Guided Tour of Assisi's Sacred Sites and Wine Tasting

Breakfast

After breakfast at our hotel, drive to Assisi.

Guided tour of Assisi: Basilica of St. Francis

After lunch, start your guided tour to see the Basilica of St. Francis and celebrate Mass.

Wine tasting

Enjoy a wine tasting at a local wine shop.

Quiet Reflection

Pray at the resting place of St. Carlos Acutis.

Visit Basilica of St. Clare

Continue on to the Basilica of St. Clare where you may see relics of her and St. Francis.

Dinner out on the town

Overnight

Mass at Santa Maria Degli Angeli and Visit Carceri Hermitage

Mass at Basilica of Santa Maria Degli Angeli

Mass at the Renaissance style Basilica of Santa Maria Degli Angeli which houses the Porziuncola. This small chapel is where St. Francis founded the Franciscan Order, lived and received the Pardon of Assis Indulgence.

Transfer by taxi to Carceri Hermitage

After lunch on your own, transfer by taxi to see the Carceri Hermitage where St. Francis retreated to pray and meditate.

Assisi hotel

Dinner and overnight in your hotel.

Visit Loreto's Holy House and San Giovanni Rotondo

Visit Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto

Depart for San Giovanni Rotondo with a stop in Loreto with the magnificent Basilica della Santa Casa. This is also called the Basilica of the Holy House where tradition holds that this basilica contains the small house where the Virgin Mary lived in Nazareth and where the Annunciation took place. Tradition says that the house was miraculously transported by angels to Loreto in the 13th century.

Mass

Celebrate Mass in Loreto.

Visit Old Church of Our Lady of Grace, San Giovanni Rotondo

After lunch, head to San Giovanni Rotondo to visit the Old Church of Our Lady of Grace. See where St. Padre Pio listened to confessions.

San Giovanni Rotondo hotel

Dinner and overnight in your hotel.

Discover Lanciano's Eucharistic Miracle and Relics

Visit Cathedral of Santa Maria del Ponte

Begin at the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Ponte, beautifully situated on a hill overlooking the ancient town. The cathedral, built over an old bridge (“del Ponte”), combines Baroque and Neoclassical styles, giving it both majesty and grace.

Visit Church of St. Francis and Eucharistic Miracle Relics

Visit the Church of St. Francis, where the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano is preserved. During Mass in the 8th century, a monk who doubted the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist witnessed the consecrated host and wine transform into real flesh and blood. These relics are still visible today, kept in a precious reliquary, and have been scientifically studied and venerated by millions of faithful.

Hotel

Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Tour Rome's Papal Basilicas and San Clemente

Guided tour of Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls

After breakfast, get a guided tour of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, one of Rome's four major papal basilicas. Celebrate Mass.

Visit Basilica of St. John Lateran

After lunch, visit the Basilica of St. John Lateran where Pope is installed and officiates as Bishop of Rome.

Visit San Clemente

Visit San Clemente where you can see 3 layers of history built on top of each other (12th century current basilica, 4th century early Christian Basilica and 1st century Roman complex).

Hotel

Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

Attend Papal Audience and Tour Vatican Museums

Attend Papal Audience at St. Peter’s Square

An early morning to get to St. Peter’s Square we will attend the Papal Audience.

Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel

After lunch tour the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel.

Visit St. Peter’s Basilica and Climb the Dome

Spend time in St. Peter’s Basilica including climbing the dome for a magnificent view.

Farewell dinner at hotel

Enjoy a farewell dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Depart from Rome Airport for your flight back home. Take with you wonderful memories of Italy!