Madrid • Loyola • Pamplona • Manresa • Montserrat • Rome
- 10 Days - THIS PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM ANYWHERE IN THE U.S.
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Trips in 2026 - $5,399.00
- Flights from anywhere in the United States and flights between countries as per your itinerary. (all necessary flights on your trip are included)
- Daily Mass will be scheduled.
- Airport Taxes, Security Fees & Fuel Surcharges Saving you an average of $400-$600!
- Transfers as per itinerary.
- 4 or 5 star hotels in downtown areas.
- Transportation with luxury bus.
- All breakfasts and all dinners. Wine included with all dinners.
- All tips to driver, hotel, and tour guide. If you feel that the tour guide did a great job, offering them extra tips is greatly appreciated.
- Guided Tours and Tour Fees ~ Our tour guides are very caring, licensed, and well educated. Many of our guides have their PhD's.
- Luggage handling (1 suitcase and 1 carry-on per person)
- Single Supplement (as long as the passengers is willing to room with someone and allows us to provide them with a roommate. If the passenger wants a guaranteed room to of their own, then they have to pay the $1000 single supplement)
- Remember: Our trips are not more expensive during high season ~ Passengers will never be expected to pay extra for anything while on the trip.
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Proximo Travel
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Auburn, MA 01501
Day 1: Depart USA for Madrid, Spain
Day 2: Arrival and tour of Madrid. Dinner and overnight in Madrid.
Day 3: Fly to Bilbao and drive to Loyola. Visit Loyola in the AM and celebrate Mass in the room of conversion, taking a tour of the Basilica and sites relevant to Ignatius. Travel to Pamplona and enjoy lunch. We will visit the Cathedral of Royal Saint Mary then onwards to Javier for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4: Tour Javier Castle in AM and Mass in Castle Church. Travel to Manresa via Huesca for lunch. Arrive in Manresa where St. Ignatius settled and lived for eleven months. He stayed here much longer than anticipated and considered his time here as very important. See the church where Ignatius prayed and the hospital where he worked (chapel of the rapture) and the bridge of pilgrims. Dinner and overnight in Manresa.
Day 5: Travel to Monserrat, celebrate morning mass and visit the Basilica of Our Lady. The Black Virgin of Montserrat (also called Our Lady of Montserrat and La Moreneta) is located inside the basilica. It is said that Virgin Mary and her infant son have healing powers. Walk around the Montserrat Shrine where there will be time for prayer and private devotion. After lunch we will travel to Barcelona Tour of Sagrada familia- See the Sword of St. Ignatius (chapel of the sacred heart). Free time on Las Ramblas in late afternoon. Dinner and overnight in Barcelona.
Day 6: Fly to Rome in the morning and visit Church of the Gesu. First conceived in 1551 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, and active during the Protestant Reformation and the subsequent Catholic Counter-Reformation, the Gesü was also the home of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus until the suppression of the order in 1773. Free time before dinner and overnight in Rome.
Day 7: After breakfast we will be visiting St. Mary Major, the main Basilica dedicated to Mary in Rome. Pope Francis tomb is locate in the basilica. We will also see the remains of Jesus' manger, the tomb of Bernini, the remains of St Matthew the Evangelist, the tomb of St. Jerome, and the oldest icon in the world of the Virgin Mary painted by St. Luke: the famous Salus Popuii Romanis After lunch, we will proceed to St. John Lateran, the first Basilica ever to be built in the Roman Empire and the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. Visit the Scala Santa, the stairs on which Jesus walked in the residence of Pontius Pilate on Good Friday. Dinner and overnight in Rome.
Day 8: Start the day around 9:30 am, by visiting the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel (the Pope's private chapel). Proceed to St. Peter's in the Vatican, the largest Basilica in the world. After lunch, tour the Catacombs where 500,000 early Christians were buried and then celebrate Mass. Tour of the Colosseum from the outside, the symbol of the city of Rome; a great building that has been standing since 80 A.D. Dinner and overnight in Rome.
Day 9: We will have an early start as our private bus takes us to the Vatican to experience the Audience with the Pope. There will be time for lunch in the Vatican area. After lunch we will visit the Spanish Steps known for the area where the Romans gathered to meet followed by a walk to the Trevi Fountain. We will continue on from there to the Pantheon, the oldest functional building in the world. We will conclude by visiting the great artistic Piazza Navona. Dinner and overnight in Rome.
Day 10: Return flight from Rome to USA
Please note: We do our best to ensure that all sites listed in this itinerary will be seen. However, due to scheduling conflicts, or other circumstances beyond our control, sites may be visited on a different day than listed. If this happens it will also necessitate a change in the restaurant for dinner. However, we will never sacrifice the quality of the meal, all restaurants will meet Proximo Travel's very high standards. Since we have several different trip configurations touring at the same time, it is likely that groups on different tours will be combined when their itineraries overlap in certain areas.
