Religious Tour

Day 2, Split, Trogir, Kaštela
After breakfast spend the morning on guided sightseeing trough Split. Enjoy a sightseeing tour featuring historic inner city, built around the Roman Emperor Diocletian’s Palace, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. Then see the remnants of Split’s Roman heritage, its Renaissance and Gothic structures, Jupiter’s Temple, the Peristyle, and the Cathedral St.Duje. Afternoon is saved for Trogir, Unesco town- island and tour guide will take you through its little labyrinth streets. Enjoy free time after the walk tour to wander through the narrow streets and more than 7 island churches. A ride back takes you to Hotel Katarina for dinner and leisure time.
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Day 3, NP Krka, Šibenik
After breakfast we start our journey towards NP Krka. Spend the morning in walk tour through the park most famous parts, Skradinski buk, Visovac island and monastery which is the Croatian most famous Marian pilgrim monastery in this area, and a boat drive to Roški fall. After free time in the park we head to Šibenik, a historic city in Croatia, located in central Dalmatia where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea. The central church in Šibenik, the Cathedral of St. James, is on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Evening hours – back to our hotel for dinner and leisure time. (B,D)

Day 4, to Međugorje
After breakfast we start our journey to Međugorje. Medjugorje (“between the hills”) has become well known in Bosnia Herzegovina, and the world, because of six young people who claim to have seen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Beginning on June 24, 1981, the Blessed Mother appeared to, and later addressed, the visionaries, that God sent her to our world to help us convert our hearts and lives back to Him. Our Lady’s call is one of Peace, Love, Faith, Conversion, Prayer, and Fasting. We are each challenged to answer Our Lady’s call to change our lives, and hearts back to God. We check in at Hotel Luna and start our pilgrim tour to the hill Cross road and the church where we attend the Holy Mass. End this wonderful day with dinner at your hotel.
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Day 5, Mostar, Dubrovnik
After breakfast at Hotel Luna in Međugorje we stop in Mostar to see the cultural difference in this beautiful tourist town. After walk tour and short stop in Mostar, we continue our trip to Dubrovnik where, after check-in, we start a walk tour of Old Dubrovnik visit the Rector’s palace, and see the Bell Tower Clock, Orlando’s Column, Sponza palace, the Dominican monastery, and Franciscan monastery with its pharmacy, one of the oldest in the world. The rest of the day is free, and evening hours are again saved for dinner in you hotel.
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Day 6 – Sinj, Zadar

Start our day with breakfast and continue or way north to Sinj. The sanctuary is the most significant Marian shrine in Dalmatia and houses the gold-crowned painting of Our Miraculous Lady of Sinj, which was brought there in 1687 by Franciscans fleeing Rama from the Turks. Believers have been coming to the sanctuary for over 300 years, particularly on 15 August, the Feast of the Assumption. Drive on to Zadar to your hotel ZaDar. city of exceptional history and rich cultural heritage. Zadar is a city monument, surrounded by historical ramparts, a treasury of the archaeological and monumental riches of ancient and medieval times, Renaissance and many contemporary architectural achievements such as the first Sea Organs in the world. … After free time, we all have dinner together at our hotel. (B, D)

Day 7, Sinj, Zadar
Start our day with breakfast and continue or way north to Sinj.The sanctuary is the most significant Marian shrine in Dalmatia and houses the gold-crowned painting of Our Miraculous Lady of Sinj, which was brought there in 1687 by Franciscans fleeing Rama from the Turks. Believers have been coming to the sanctuary for over 300 years, particularly on 15 August, the Feast of the Assumption. Drive on to Zadar to your hotel ZaDar. city of exceptional history and rich cultural heritage. Zadar is a city monument, surrounded by historical ramparts, a treasury of the archaeological and monumental riches of ancient and medieval times, Renaissance and many contemporary architectural achievements such as the first Sea Organs in the world. … After free time, we all have dinner together at our hotel.
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Day 8, Rijeka, Opatija
After breakfast we drive to Rijeka and visit Marian sanctuary Lady of Trsat. The most significant sanctuary in Kvarner dedicated to Mary, and the oldest in Croatia. It is primarily a family sanctuary, known as the Croatian Nazareth. Everyday visitors are individuals, married couples, parents with children, and young couples. They come to Our Lady of Trsat in search of grace, perseverance, faith, and conciliation in hope and in prayer for the resolution of problems, for the forgiveness of sins, and for the realization of desires and expectations. Pope John Paul II also visited the Trsat sanctuary in 2003 in celebration and honour of the sacredness of family, under the motto “Family – the path of the Church and the people”.
Trsat is also a sanctuary dedicated to Mary by seamen, the sanctuary of the Queen of the Adriatic – Star of the Sea. It is a destination for many seamen and their families, where they give thanks to Our Lady for “protecting, defending and bringing them home” in their inscriptions and prayers and thanks.
Drive on to Opatija and enjoy the rest of the day walking trough famous Lungomare and parks of Opatija until the evening dinner in your hotel.
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Day 9, Marija Bistrica, Zagreb
Holy Mass in Marija Bistrica, this Marian sanctuary in central Croatia, is a great way to start the day. Marija Bistrica, the most known Croatian shrine of St. Mary, situated on the northern slopes of Medvednica some 40 km northeast of Croatia’s capital Zagreb, has been the central place of worship of the Croatian people for centuries. What is Lourdes to the French, Fatima to the Portuguese, Loretto to the Italians, Czestochowa to the Poles, Mariazell to the Austrians that is the picturesque Marija Bistrica to the Croatian people.
Shrine of St. Mary of Bistrica had and still has an important role in the Marian geography of the Croatian people. For centuries, pilgrims from all over Croatia and abroad, as well as individuals coming in silence of personal pilgrimage, have been visiting Marija Bistrica to seek and find inner peace.
Spend the morning in this beautiful and famous pilgrim sanctuary and in the afternoon head to Zagreb. After check-in, we go for a walk tour of Zagreb, to enjoy a city tour featuring the historic Upper Town, St Mark’s Church, St. Catherine’s Church, the Cathedral and the Parliament, and the Government Palace. The rest of the day is free to explore the winding streets of the Old Town.
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Day 10, Travel Croatia homeward journey
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for your departure flight.
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