Regina Tours to Offer 'Lenten Pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi'

Trusted Catholic travel provider Regina Tours will offer "Lenten Pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi," a weeklong Lenten pilgrimage to Italy, departing onMonday, March 9, 2015. An opportunity to spend Lent seeing some of the most holy and historic sites of Italy, the tour also takes pilgrims to Vatican City to attend a Papal Audience. With visits to the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica and mass celebrated every day, "Lenten Pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi" is a tour that pilgrims will remember for a lifetime.

The pilgrimage takes travelers to Rome's three major basilicas-St. Mary Major; St. John Lateran, the Cathedral of Rome; and St. Paul Outside the Walls, built over the burial place of St. Paul. While spiritually enriching, the tour also gives travelers an understanding of Roman history, with visits to the archeological area of the Roman Forum, the Appian Way, the Catacombs, St. Peter in Chains, the Colosseum, the Arch of Constantine and the Circus Maximus.

Pilgrims will leave Rome for a daytrip to Assisi, the town of beloved St. Francis. In Assisi, the group visits the Basilica of St. Francis, with its wonderful artwork by Giotto; the church of St. Clare, which houses her incorrupt body; the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels; and the Portiuncula Chapel, birthplace of the Franciscan Order.

"Lenten Pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi"departs on March 9, 2015 and is available for $2,598. Price includes round-trip airfare from New York City, 5 nights accommodations in superior tourist class hotels, breakfast and dinner daily, all sightseeing entrance fees as per itinerary, touring by private air conditioned motor coach and the services of a professional tour escort. For more information, please visit www.regina-tours.com/rome_assisi.

Founded in 1985, Regina Tours is dedicated to building Catholic community and fellowship through pilgrimage travel.