Join Father Giovanni Gamas in the exciting Pilgrimage to the Central -Eastern Europe 13 Days, 11 Nights (October 10-22, 2027)
Join Father Giovanni Gamas in the exciting
Pilgrimage to the Central -Eastern Europe
13 Days, 11 Nights – From October 10-22 of 2027
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Folsom, CA -USA
START TIME
10/10/2027
END TIME
10/22/2025
PRICE
$5,490 Double Room $6140 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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October 10: USA – Dubrovnik.
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October 11: Arrival to Dubrovnik.
Meet with the tour leader and transfer to your hotel. Dinner. Overnight stay in Dubrovnik.
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October 12: Dubrovnik – Medjugorje
Breakfast at the hotel. 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. In the afternoon depart for Medjugorje to the hotel. Accommodation. Dinner. Overnight in Medjugorje.
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October 13: Medjugorje.
Breakfast at the hotel. English 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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October 14: Medjugorje - Plitvice - Split sightseeing.
Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out. Departure for Plitvice & Split, Cross the border to the EEUU (European
Community). Arrive and start the 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. Dinner and overnight in Plitvice. (Croatia)
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October 15: Plitvice – Zagreb sightseeing – Vienna
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 Vienna. Arrive, Dinner. Overnight in Vienna.
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October 16: Vienna sightseeing
Breakfast at the hotel. Vienna sightseeing by coach: “Ring Strasse” 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 Schon Brunn
Palace (entrance). Dinner. Overnight in Vienna.
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October 17: Vienna - Bratislava sightseeing – Budapest. (Hungary)
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 AustroHungarian 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 Budapest. Arrival.
Accommodation. Dinner. Overnight in Budapest.
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October 18: 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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October 19: Budapest - Wadowice: John Paul II birthplace – Krakow.
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 Krakow. Arrival. Dinner. Overnight in Krakow (Poland).
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October 20: 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 dijerent origin, mostly Jews,
were murdered there. It was here, where Saint Maximilian Kolbe died, ojering 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, were Karol Wojtyla, then a seminarian, physically worked during the
Second World War. Dinner. Overnight in Krakow.
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October 21: 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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October 22: Krakow – USA.
Check-out from the hotel. Transfer to the Krakow airport to board your overseas flight back home
PHOTOS
