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Madrid & Rome
August 14-26, 2011
YOUR TRIP INCLUDES:
Round-trip air from New York to Madrid
(special
Add-on Airfares
from all
other US gateways)
Airline Fuel Surcharge (approx. $280)
10 nights at first class or 3 stars hotels
7 nights: Madrid
3
nights: Hotel Michelangelo, Rome (or
similar)
Breakfast daily
Dinner daily (not in madrid)
One welcome dinner on your first night in Madrid
Transportation by air-conditioned motor coach
Hotel taxes and service charges
Papal Audience (if available)
Tour escort throughout your stay
Mass daily
Baggage handling
Flight bag & portfolio of all travel documents
Not Included:
Airport taxes
(approx. $90-120, subject to change), Lunches,
Dinners & Drinks in Madrid,
Travel Insurance
optional at $99-$165. Tips to your guide & driver (Euro
6-8 per day). Items of a personal nature. World Youth
Day Official Registration, Anything not mentioned above.
Sample Day by Day Itinerary:
Day 1:
Aug 14 - Depart USA
Board your overnight transatlantic flights from your
home town. Meals are served on board.
Day 02:
Aug 15
We arrive in Madrid and transfer to our hotel. Welcome
dinner is served tonight at our hotel before the opening
ceremonies. Opening ceremonies sight to be announced.
Day 03 - 06: Aug
16 - 19
After breakfast each day we will participate in the
World Youth Day Programs and activities schedule.
Overnight at your hotel.
Day 07:
Aug 20:
World Youth Day activities today and tonight is the
World Youth Day Vigil and Closing Mass officiated by His
Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI.
Day 08:
Aug 21:
The World Youth Day 2011 celebration comes to an end
today with Mass with The Holy Father. Afterwards we
retire to our hotel to rest up before departure.
Day 09: Aug
22:
Madrid -
Rome
You’ll be met upon arrival and transferred to your
hotel. Spend the balance of the day at leisure. Dinner
and overnight.
Day
10: Aug
23:
Rome
Wake up in Eternal City, one of the greatest centers of
Western Civilization and the first truly cosmopolitan
city on earth! It is also spiritual capital for all the
Catholics around the world. We will visit the Vatican
Museums, a group of most impressive edifices with
hundreds of galleries filled with art treasures. See
awe-inspiring relics and works of art donated throughout
centuries as tributes of faith. We'll cover The Tapestry
Gallery, The Raphael Rooms and the most overwhelming
Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's Masterpiece, restored
mural of the Last Judgment. Later, enter the largest
church in Christendom St Peter's Basilica, built on the
site where St Peter was martyred. Unsurpassed in beauty,
a monument to the long history of the Catholic Church,
to which pilgrims come from around the world, St Peter's
is the grandest of the world's churches. Marvel Pieta
and Bernini's amazing bronze canopy. We will also visit
the grave of Pope John Paul II located at the Vatican.
Before dinner, we'll have some time at leisure, to
explore your own paths, to shop, or just to sit in one
of the outside cafes and watch the world go by.
Day
11: Aug
24:
Rome
This morning we depart for a sightseeing tour with focus
on "Christian Rome" .Touring we will see many important
cultural and monumental sights around Rome. Stop for a
visit at three major Basilicas: St Mary Major, one of
the oldest shrines dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, a
shrine that contains a relic from the manger of the
infant Jesus. The Basilica of the St John in Lateran, is
the former residence of the popes prior to their return
to Rome in 1377. St Paul Outside the Walls, which houses
the remains of St Paul under its main altar. We will
also see the ancient Baths of Caracalla, Arch of Drusus,
Chapel "O'Domine Quo Vadis?" the remains of imperial
tombs, Tomb of Celilia Metella, and the catacombs of St
Callixtus where the early Christians hid themselves to
escape persecution. Dinner and overnight in Rome.
Day
12: Aug
25:
Rome to Madrid
After breakfast at your hotel, transfer will be provided
to Rome airport, where your Post World Youth Day tour
will end. See “Optional Tours” available.
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