Religious Tour from Rome to San Giovanni Rotondo: Following in Padre Pio's Footsteps

Highlights

• City of Padre Pio
• Capuchin Convent
• Spirituality and Mysticism

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Monte Sant'Angelo

   1h

   The first stop of the tour will be the Grotto of San Michele Arcangelo, located in Monte Sant’Angelo, one of the oldest and most venerated shrines of Christianity. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the cave is shrouded in a mystical atmosphere and has been linked to the apparitions of the Archangel Michael since the fifth century. This sacred place, a place of pilgrimage for over a thousand years, will offer you an intense and suggestive spiritual experience.

2. 2

   San Giovanni Rotondo

   3h

   San Giovanni Rotondo, to explore the famous Shrine of Padre Pio, one of the most important places of worship in the Catholic world. Here you will visit the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, where Padre Pio lived and carried out his ministry for many years. You can admire his personal belongings, relics and his incorruptible body, displayed with great devotion. Next you will visit the new Church of San Pio da Pietrelcina, designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, which houses the crypt where the saint's remains rest. You will have time to pray, reflect and live a moment of recollection in this spiritually charged place. At the end of the visit, you will have free time to have lunch and relax, before returning to Rome with a heart full of emotions and memories of a unique spiritual and cultural experience.

Before you go

Location

Italy