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Rome Travels wants to interprete the authentic journeys of the spirit throughout a pilgrimage to Italy. We know to live in a country where the religious customs are quite strong being the State where more than anywhere else the Roman Catholicism spread out. If the Pilgrimages always existed, we would like to be a useful travel resource to be in touch with the group of pilgrims who wish to be guided step-by-step in a religious tour during an Italy pilgrimage.

Our Catholic faith, education and instruction always helped us in customizing for the visitors coming mainly for a reason of Faith or who are looking for a pilgrimage travel through the most significant sites for Christianity in Italy. We are ready to share our travel experience, database, knowledge and most important, our passion for a religious holiday with the pilgrims who are planning a 2010 Pilgrimage.

Rome Travels proposes samples of religious travel in the main pilgrimage sites, the Catholic monasteries, or Sanctuaries or providing pilgrimage tours for those who are looking for the principal Italy Saints buried all over Italy. The possibilities of arranging a pilgrimage tour are endless, it depends also on the location you want to stay and how many days you have a disposal for your religious holidays. Should you be uncertain about, we will help you in finding not only the hotel but also any good religious accommodation nearby the pilgrimage route you want to visit.

Last: we consider a Catholic Pilgrimage as a lifetime experience. We know that for somebody Italy is not properly around the corner...and so some will not have often the chance to go back and forth to our home country. Therefore, this will be one more reason to entirely dedicate ourselves to plan a veritable religious holiday. This is our promise, that is your deal.

Organize a Tour - Planning a Pilgrimage to Rome & Italy

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There's still time to plan a 2010 trip! September - December are great times to travel to Europe. The weather is cool, the prices are low and there not too many crowds !

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Pigrimage Tour 1
Roma - Fiastra - Camerino - Loreto
2 days/1 night

DAY 1
Early depart Rome to Fiastra (200 Km- 130 miles - 3 hs drive), to see one of the best preserved Cisternian Abbeys in Italy (Santa Maria in Chiaravalle, XIIth Cent.) . After a couple of hours, we will then go to Camerino (30 min drive), to see this little Renaissance Gem lost in the Marche Region. Visit to the Basilica of St. Venanzio , erected in the Vth cent. on the Catholic relics and named after this great catholic martyr executed in 253 A.D + visit to the Capuchin Convent where this Religious order was originated. Camerino is the town of the Gates & Fortresses.
Overnight in Camerino.
DAY 2
Camerino - Loreto (1 hour drive): Marian Sanctuary of Loreto. Full day.
Return to Rome (300 km - 200 miles - 3 hours drive) at the end of the day.

Costs:
10-17 people: EUR 380,00 per person
20-40 people: EUR 320,00 per person

Notes:
1. Above costs are inclusive of 12 hours private transportation per day per two days and English speaking tour manager and/or tour guide throughout the entire excursion.
2. Not included: overnight, lunches, entrance fees, extras. We arrange for each one of these.

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Pigrimage Tour 2
Roma - Loreto - Full day Excursion

Rome - Loreto (3 hours drive): Marian Sanctuary of Loreto. Full day.
Return to Rome (300 km - 200 miles - 3 hours drive) at the end of the day.

Costs:
10-17 people: EUR 180,00 per person
20-40 people: EUR 120,00 per person

Notes:
1. Above costs are inclusive of 12 hours private transportation and English speaking tour manager and/or tour guide throughout the entire excursion.
2. Not included: lunch, entrance fees, extras. We arrange for each one of these.

Related Links:

Loreto



Abbey of Chiaravalle - Fiastra


Camerino on Wikipedia

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Pigrimage Tour 3
Roma - Our Lady of Pompeii - Full day Excursion

Rome - Pompeii (3 hours drive): Marian Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pompeii. Full day.
Return to Rome (300 km - 200 miles - 3 hours drive) at the end of the day.

Costs:

10-17 people: EUR 180,00 per person
20-40 people: EUR 120,00 per person

Notes:

1. Above costs are inclusive of 12 hours private transportation and English speaking tour manager and/or tour guide throughout the entire excursion.
2. Not included: lunch, entrance fees, extras. We arrange for each one of these.

Related Link:


Official Web Site - Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pompeii

To know before going to see San Pio of Pietralcina and the Sanctuary of St. Michael on Mount Sant'Angelo
The Sacred Way of Longobards - ("Via Sacra Langobardorum")

Of all pilgrims routes going to the Apulia Region (Puglia), one of the most remarkable is the so called "Via Sacra Langobardorum" in which the Longobards erected in the High Middle Ages, at regular distance to each other, five Sanctuaries: the Franciscan of Santa Maria di Stignano and St. Matteo in San Marco in Lamis, then St. Michael in Monte Sant'Angelo, St. Leonard of Siponto in Manfredonia and, last, the Sanctuary of the Incoronata in Foggia. The Longobards were the great defenders of the cult of St. Michael in Europe and only in the XXth Cent. has been erected the largest of these Sanctuaries, dedicated to San Padre Pio.

The Medieval Pilgrimage of the Via Sacra Langobardorum started originally in France (Mont Saint Michel) and was directed to the Sanctuary on Monte Sant'Angelo.
Santa Maria di Stignano: a legend says that even the same Catholic St. Francis of Assisi, on 1216, passing on the Valley of Stignano going as a pilgrim to Mount St. Michael, remained shocked by the amenity of this site, for its light and blessed the fruits of this land.

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Pigrimage Tour 4
Roma - Santa Maria di Stignano - San Matteo in San Marco in Lamis - San Giovanni Rotondo - Monte Sant'Angelo - Abbey of Casamari
3 days/2 nights

DAY 1
Early depart Rome to Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Stignano (4 hs drive - 365 km - 210 miles). Lunch and visit. At the end, proceed to the Sanctuary of St. Matthew of San Marco in Lamis. At the end, go to San Giovanni Rotondo. Dinner and overnight.
DAY 2
San Giovanni Rotondo - Sanctuary of St. Pio - Father Pio - In the afternoon, go to the Sanctuary of Monte San Michele (30 minutes drive). Overnight in the area.
DAY 3
Monte San Michele - Rome via Abbey of Casamari (Frosinone). Monte Sant' Angelo - Abbey of Casamari (380 km - 230 miles - 4,5 hs drive). Abbey of Casamari - Rome (100 km - 60 miles - 1 hour drive). As alternative, Abbey of MonteCassino.


Costs:

10-17 people: EUR 450,00 per person
20-40 people: EUR 300,00 per person

Notes:
1. Above costs are inclusive of 12 hours private transportation per day per three days and English speaking tour manager and/or tour guide throughout the entire excursion.
2. Not included: overnights, lunches, entrance fees, extras. We arrange for each one of these.

Catholic Pilgrimage - Italy Pilgrimage -
Pigrimage Tour 5
Roma - San Giovanni Rotondo - Monte Sant'Angelo -
2 days/1 night

DAY 1
Early depart Rome to Sanctuary to San Giovanni Rotondo (380 km - 230 miles - 4 hours drive). All day in San Giovanni Rotondo.
Dinner and overnight.
DAY 2
San Giovanni Rotondo - Sanctuary of Monte San Michele (30 minutes drive). After lunch, return to Rome (400 km - 250 miles - 4,5 hours drive).

Costs:

10-17 people: EUR 400,00 per person
20-40 people: EUR 250,00 per person

Notes:
1. Above costs are inclusive of 12 hours private transportation per day per two days and English speaking tour manager and/or tour guide throughout the entire excursion.
2. Not included: overnight, lunches, entrance fees, extras. We arrange for each one of these.

RELATED LINKS
Official Web Site of San Padre Pio - St. Fr. Pio


www.padrepio.it

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Pigrimage Tour 6
Roma - Assisi - Full day Excursion

Rome - Assisi (3 hours drive). Entire day dedicated to the Catholic St Francis. Visit of the Duomo + Convent and Basilica of St.e Claire.
Return to Rome (300 km - 200 miles - 3 hours drive) at the end of the day.

Costs:

10-17 people: EUR 200,00 per person
20-40 people: EUR 140,00 per person

Notes:

1. Above costs are inclusive of 12 hours private transportation and English speaking tour manager throughout the entire excursion.
2. Assisi Tour - English speaking Tour Guide for 3 hours
3. Not included: lunch, entrance fees, extras. We arrange for each one of these.

Related Link:

Official Web Site - Papal Basilica of St. Francis Assisi (Italian Only)