Join Father Noel Ancheta on an exciting Pilgrimage to Central -Eastern Europe – 15 DAYS, 13 NIGHTS (September 8-22,2025)
START TIME
09/08/2025
END TIME
09/22/2025
PRICE
$5690 Double Room $6420 Single Room
INCLUDED
- Airline Ticket- Round trip Flights
- Accommodation at 4-star hotels
- Two Meals per day (Breakfast and Dinner)
- Transportation in Deluxe Motorcoaches with Air Condition
- Professional Tour Guide all through
- Handling of luggage at the Hotels.
- Daily Mass at all Holy sites
NOT INCLUDED
- Transpiration to and from airport in USA
- Travel Insurance (Optional)
- Tips
- Alcoholic Drinks
ITINERARY
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Sept. 08: USA– PRAGUE (CZECK REPUBLIC)
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Sept. 09: Arrival in Prague
Meeting with the tour leader and transfer to your hotel. Dinner. Overnight stay in Prague.
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Sept. 10: Prague sightseeing.
The first part of the tour around Prague. The religious side of Prague: the church of the House of Nazareth – Prague’s Loreto, a visit at the castle and of St. Vitus’ Cathedral along with the funeral chapel of St. Venceslao, the patron of Czech Republic. The cathedral is also the eternal resting place of St.
John Nepomucen. Visiting St. George’s Basilica, the Golden Lane (entrances), Starahovski’s convent, the Church of Our Lady of Victory with the famous statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague.
Holy Mass.
Second part of the tour: Bohemian Prague: walking along Paris Street to Jozefov, the former Jewish Quarter. Charles’
Bridge, walking along the Royal Route: Celetna Street, Na Prikope Street. The Market Square with the Municipal
House. Leisure time in the city center.
Dinner. The last night in Prague.
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Sept. 11: Prague – Czestochowa: Black Madonna – Krakow (Poland)
Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out. Departure for Czestochowa.
Arrival and guided tour of the most important pilgrimage place in Poland: The Monastery in Czestochowa: Jasna
Gora, with the miraculous icon of Our Lady – the Black Madonna.
Holy Mass. Departure for Krakow. Arrival. Dinner. Overnight in Krakow (Poland)
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Sept. 12: Krakow sightseeing + Wieliczka Salt Mines
Breakfast at the hotel. Guided tour of Krakow.Wawel Hill with the castle and its beautiful courtyard and Cathedral (sightseeing
inside). The Old Town, the biggest market square in Europe, the Town Hall, Collegium Maius – an ancient building belonging to
the Jagiellonian University, the Cloth Hall, Saint Mary’s Church (sightseeing inside) with the famous altar by Veit Stoss. We will
also see places related to the life of Karol Wojtyla, the bishop of Krakow, like to Franciscan Church. In 1978, Krakow was listed
as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Holy Mass.
Guided tour in the Wieliczka Salt Mine: one of the oldest salt mines in the world.
The mine forms an underground city, with chapels (St. Kinga’s Chapel is the largest underground chapel in the world), lakes and
tunnels. In 1978 the Wieliczka Salt Mine was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Dinner with traditional Polish folklore. Overnight in Krakow.
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Sept. 13: Krakow – Auschwitz-Birkenau - Lagiewniki: Divine Mercy Shrine – Krakow
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Auschwitz.
Guided tour of the area of the former concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp was built by Nazis during the Nazi
occupation of Poland and more than a million people of different origin, mostly Jews, were murdered there. It was here, where
Saint Maximilian Kolbe died, offering his life to die in place of a compatriot, father of a family. Saint Edith Stein was also
killed in this camp. Today this place is a World Heritage Site of UNESCO. Transfer to Krakow-Lagiewniki.
Visit to the Sanctuary in Krakow-Lagiewniki, the most important sanctuary related to Divine Mercy in the world, a pilgrimage
destination for millions of people. This place, marked by the life and work of Sister Faustina Kowalska, was proclaimed “the
center of Divine Mercy” by Pope John Paul II. The Sanctuary is made up of the convent (in which Sister Faustina lived and
died), the basilica and the chapel, where there is the tomb with the relics of Sister Faustina and the famous painting of the
Merciful Jesus
“Jesus, I trust in you” painted according to the vision of the Polish saint.
Holy Mass in one of the chapels of the Sanctuary.
Visit to the Sanctuary of John Paul II: Visit to the Sanctuary built on the grounds of the Solvay quarry, where Karol Wojtyla, then
a seminarian, physically worked during the Second World War.
Dinner. Overnight in Krakow.
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Sept. 14: Krakow – Wadowice: John Paul II birthplace – Budapest (Hungary)
Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out from the hotel. Departure for Wadowice.
Visiting the Pope’s home, where Karol Wojtyla was born on the 18th of May 1920, as well as the church where he was baptized
on the 20th of June 1920. Lunch and continuation of the trip to Budapest.
Arrival. Dinner. Overnight in Budapest (Hungary)
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Sept. 15: Budapest sightseeing
Breakfast at the hotel. Guided tour of Budapest, the city divided into two parts by the Danube River.
The Buda part, the castle district: the Fisherman’s Bastion from which a magnificent panoramic view of Pest and the Danube
extends, located next to the Church of Matthias (entrance), considered the center of Buda, one of the most beautiful and romantic
places in the city, the coronation place of many Hungarian kings.
Continuation of sightseeing; Pest: Heroes’ Square, City Park, Andrássy Avenue, the 36-meter-high Millenium Monument with
Archangel Gabriel holding a holy Crown and the Patriarchal Cross. Walking to the Main Market Square, passing the famous Parliament, and St. Stephan’s Basilica. Holy Mass.
The day ends with a Danube cruise with dinner on board. Return to the hotel and overnight in Budapest.
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Sept. 16: Budapest – Bratislava sightseeing – Viena (Austria)
Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out. Departure for Bratislava (Slovakia). Guided tour of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Between
two powers – Austria and Hungary, Bratislava was one of the main cities of the old Austro-Hungarian empire. However, after
World War II the area fell under Soviet influence. The present appearance of the city is a mix of ancient monuments and modern
architecture.
Depart to Vienna. Arrive and have dinner. Overnight in Vienna.
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Sept. 17: Vienna sightseeing
Breakfast at the hotel. Vienna sightseeing by coach: “Ringstrasse” with its fantastic monuments and buildings, such as the
Opera, museums, the Parliament, the Town Hall, the National Theatre, and the Imperial Palace of Hofburg. Holy Mass at St.
Stephen’s Cathedral. Continue of our visit in Vienna: The Schonbrunn Palace (entrance). Dinner. Overnight in Vienna.
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Sept. 18: Vienna – Zagreb (Croatia)
Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out. Departure for Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.
Arrival and City tour of Zagreb: During the tour, you will see the highlights of both the Upper and Lower Town, including the
iconic landmarks such as the St. Mark’s Church with its colorful tiled roofs and the majestic Zagreb Cathedral. Holy Mass.
Departure for Plitvice. Arrive, Dinner. Overnight in Zagreb
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Sept. 19: Plitvice - Split sightseeing
We start our day with a visit to the Natural Park of Plitvice with its waterfalls. (The visit will be short of almost 90 minutes.
(There is a long way walk till the park. Those who can´t follow may stay in the bus) Then leave to the city of Split. Split is a
historic city, built by Roman Emperor Diocletian’s, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site. We will see the remnants of Split’s
Roman heritage, its Renaissance and Gothic structures, Jupiter’s Temple, the Peristyle, and the Cathedral.
Departure for Medjugorje. Cross the border out of the EEUU (European Community).
Arrival. Dinner and overnight in Split.
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Sept. 20: Split - Medjugorje
Breakfast at the hotel. English. Depart to Medjugorje for a Mass at Church of St James. Orientation meeting with a guide for a
basic history fact about Medjugorje and Apparitions. After orientation talk, climbing with a local guide on Apparition Hill and
prayer at stations of the Rosary at the Apparition hill. When going down from the Hill, stop at the Blue Cross, a site where
visionary Mirjana has Apparition of Our lady on 2nd day of each month. Rosary in Church of St James. Dinner. Overnight in
Medjugorje.
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Sept. 21: Medjugorje – DubrovniK
Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out and leave to Dubronvik.
City tour of Dubrovnik, one of the most beautiful stone cities in the world, part of the UNESCO World Heritage, known for the
beauty of its monuments and sublime walls, which are among the most important tourist destinations in the Mediterranean. The
old town center is fenced with the famous 10th century city walls, which are among the most massive and beautiful buildings of
its kind in Europe. Holy Mass.
Transfer to the hotel and have dinner. Overnight in Dubrovnik.
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Sept. 22: Dubrovnik - USA
Check-out from the hotel.
Transfer to the Dubrovnik airport and departure at 08:35 am to Frankfurt. Connect with your overseas flight back home.
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