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Barcelona • Lourdes • Avignon • La Salette • Paris


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  • 11 Days - THIS PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM ANYWHERE IN THE U.S.

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Trip Includes

 

  • 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 $900 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.

Trip Does Not Include

 

  • Lunch
  • Trip Insurance. Work directly with Travel Guard to protect your investment and insure your money. There are different packages to choose from depending on what your travel needs are. Use the above link or the link right below the picture of the Pope on our home page to visit their site.

Steps For Registration

 

  1. Call us (855) 842-8001 or register online with a credit card and pay your $500 deposit per person to save your spot. The $500 deposit is part of the total price of the trip.
  2. A $1,000 Additional Deposit (AD) per person is due one month from the registration. The AD is paid ONLY in the form of Check (personal, money order, or bank check).
  3. The balance is due 4 months before the trip departure date. The balance is paid ONLY in the form of Check (personal, money order, or bank check).

 

  • Mail all checks and correspondence to:

 

Proximo Travel
PO Box 561
Auburn, MA 01501

 

  • NOTE: If you sign up for a trip within 4 months of the departure date, you pay the deposit of $500 with a credit card and the balance is required to be overnighted in the form of a personal check, money order or bank check.

 


Trip Itinerary

September 13: Your pilgrimage begins today as you depart on your flight to Barcelona. Meals and drinks served aloft.

September 14: Arrival. Meet your local coordinator that will be with you the entire journey. Board your bus and take a tour of the city as time permits and visit La Sagrada Familia. Continue to your hotel. Evening: Dinner and overnight accommodations will be at your hotel in Barcelona

September 15: Today This morning we depart Barcelona for Lourdes. The afternoon is to visit the Shrine and to have the miraculous bath. Dinner and overnight accommodations will be at your hotel in Lourdes.

September 16: Tour the town beginning with The Grotto of Our Lady, watch a video presentation on the story of Lourdes. Walk in the footsteps of St. Bernadette. See Boly Mill where St. Bernadette was born. Your walking tour will include the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, and the XII century Castle. Marvel as you tour the Basilica of St. Pius X, the world’s largest underground church. Evenings are free for an optional Blessed Sacrament Procession before dinner. After dinner choose to participate in a candlelight procession. Dinner and overnight accommodations will be at your hotel in Lourdes.

September 17: Travel to Carcassone. Enjoy this beautiful fortified city in the Massif Central Pyrenees. Visit the Basilica of St. Nazaire and St. Celse. After lunch, continue to Avingnon, where seven successive Popes lived there in the years 1309 - 1377. The historical center includes the Palais des Papes, the Cathedral and Point d’ Avingnon. Dinner and overnight accommodations will be at your hotel in Avignon.

September 18: Depart to Maximum de Baume to see the relics of Mary Magdalane and have lunch. Then, proceed to La Sallete. Enjoy the free time exploring the area and join the town in their celebrations for the Feast of La Salette. Evening: Dinner and overnight accommodations will be at your hotel in La Salette.

September 19: Full day participating in the Feast of La Sallete. Dinner and overnight accommodations will be at your hotel in La Salette.

September 20: Drive to Paris. Upon arrival in Paris will transfer to our hotel for check‐in. ​Evening: Dinner and overnight accommodations will be at your hotel in Paris.

September 21: We visit the Shrine of St. Catherine Laboure where the tradition of the Miraculous Medal began. It was here where Our Lady appeared to St. Catherine Laboure in 1830. At the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, we enter the Chapel of the Vincentian Fathers and view his glass reliquary containing his body high above the main altar. His incorrupt body was damaged in a flood and decayed. His skeleton is now covered with wax giving him a realistic appearance. We then travel to the Chapel of the Daughters of Charity to view the remains of St. Louise Le Gras. She was cofounder of the Daughters with St. Vincent de Paul. This afternoon you are on your own to explore Paris. Evening: Dinner and overnight accommodations will be at your hotel in Paris.

September 22: We will enjoy a full day tour of the “City of Lights” including visits to the Eiffel Tower, Sainte‐Chapelle which was built in 1248 to house Our Lord’s Crown of Thorns and other relics, the famous Opera House (outside visit), the Arc de Triomphe (outside visit), and Montmartre with its magnificent Basilica of Sacre Coeur. Dinner and overnight accommodations will be at your hotel in Paris.

September 23: Transfer to the airport to board our return flight home.

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.

 

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