Padre Pio's Shrine Private Tour from Rome

Rome represents the starting point but also the end of the tour , because there will be 4 hours of driving time to get in San Giovanni Rotondo, and then to come back. There’s the restroom stop each 2 hours from Rome to San Giovanni Rotondo.

After the death of Padre Pio, the Saint’s friars thought of constructing a new church, because too sensitive to the material and spiritual needs of the devotees, that the existing church could not contain. After the presentation of several projects, Friars entrusted the design of a new church to the architect Renzo Piano, so that it could accommodate 6,500 people. For its size it is the second largest church in Italy, after St. Peter's Church in Rome.

Originally built in 1540, the Capuchin Monastery is the site where the Saint lived from September 1916, until his death in September 1968. It was here that Pio received the stigmata in 1918, and where all those supernatural events that led to his sainthood and canonization took place as well. Visiting this Monastery and viewing the chambers where St. Pio conducted his life means jumping into a context of spirituality and mysticism; it is a destination that devout and tourists alike should make every effort to visit.

Originally built in 1540, the Capuchin Monastery is the site where the Saint lived from September 1916, until his death in September 1968. It was here that Pio received the stigmata in 1918, and where all those supernatural events that led to his sainthood and canonization took place as well. Visiting this Monastery and viewing the chambers where St. Pio conducted his life means jumping into a context of spirituality and mysticism; it is a destination that devout and tourists alike should make every effort to visit.