ROCS Guided Holidays - 5 Day Vatican 2025

CITY TOUR ETERNAL ROME

Breakfast and today we will start our city tour by touring some of the most important landmarks of Rome, visiting St. Mary Major Basilica – one of the four main Basilicas in Rome – St. John in Lateran the ‘mother of all churches’, built under the emperor Constantine, the first Christian Caesar, and renewed by Borromini in the XVII century – The “Holy Stairs” with the 28 steps ascended by Christ in Pontius Pilates’ house during his trial, San Paolo Fuori le Mura which is a patriarchal basilica dedicated to St Paul, near the site of his tomb and containing his shrine. It is also the Roman basilica assigned to the Patriarch of Alexandria, and the second largest church in Rome. Later we will proceed to Navona Square, a typical Baroque square and The Pantheon which is the most complete ancient building in Rome and one of the city’s most spectacular sights Visit to the Vatican, St Peter’s Basilica the largest Church of the world, with millions of golden mosaics, several Tombs of Popes and the Pieta, Michelangelo’s most important sculpture.

JUBILEE 2025

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