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DAY 1:
Malta. Arrive at Malta International airport, meet your English
speaking guide and transfer by coach to the hotel for room allocation.
Dinner and Overnight
DAY 2:
Once safely on
shore, we found that the island was called Malta.
The islanders
showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all
because it was raining and cold . . . Acts 28: 1-2
 After
breakfast, depart for a full days excursion to Rabat and Mdina. First
stop at Mosta, which today is a busy market town. At its center is the
magnificent domed church called the "Mosta Rotunda". On the way to
Rabat, next stop will be at Ta' Qali, where visitors are able to enjoy
seeing the local craftsmen at work. Continue towards Rabat and stop to
visit St. Paul Church (founded in 1575) and Grotto. Beneath the
church is St. Paul's Grotto, where, according to tradition, the Apostle
Paul was held captive by the Romans for three months following his
shipwreck on the Islands in AD 60. The group will then stop at a local
restaurant for lunch, included. After lunch break, group will visit The
Roman Domus. This museum houses remains of Malta's roman period. Finally,
the group will walk through the streets of Mdina, Malta's first capital. Today it is known as the Silent City. Group will the Cathedral dedicated
to St. Peter and St. Paul which is the masterpiece of the Maltese
architect Lorenzo Gafà. Group will return to hotel at about 17:00.
Dinner and overnight.
DAY 3: Malta. Today is a day at
leisure with dinner and overnight at our hotel.
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4:
After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had
wintered on he island. It was on Alexndrian ship with the figurehead on
the twin gods Castor and Pollux. 12 We put in at Syracuse and stayed
there for three days..... Acts 28:11
Early morning transfer to the port (05.30) to embark the ferry to
Sicily. Arrive in Pozzallo, east of Sicily at 08:30. Upon arrival,
meet coach and depart for visit to city of Siracusa, site of St. Paul's
arrival in Sicily en route from Malta to Rome. Today, Siracusa is the
site of well preserved Roman ruins as well as a vibrant Italian
seaport. Circumnavigating the base of Mt. Etna, we will continue to
Taormina - a hillside sea resort on the Eastern coast of Sicily. Time at
leisure to explore this beautiful destination. Dinner at hotel and
overnight.
DAY 5:
From there we set sail and arrived at Rhegium, The
next day the south wind came up, and on the following day we reached
Puteoli....14 There we found some brothers who invited us to spend a
week with them .... Acts 28:13
Early morning departure
to cross the Straits of Messina via ferry for a trip north along the
western coast of Italy, through the regions of Calabria and Campania.
Enroute to Sorrento, stop for a visit at the beautiful city of Amalfi on
the Amalfinata Coast. Arrive in Sorrento for dinner at hotel and
overnight.
DAY 6: Breakfast
and departure towards Naples. Orientation tour of this picturesque
city, sloped down from the hills towards the sea like an amphitheatre.
Bounded on one side by Vesuvius and on the other by the Phlegraean
fields, the result is a scenario of extraordinary beauty, sung by poets
and writers down through the ages: Virgil, Boccaccio, Milton, Shelley,
Cervantes, Goethe, Byron...Free time to taste the best "pizza" and
"espresso caffe" of the world. Continue towards Pozzuoli.
...and after
one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli.
Acts 28:13
Stop at the old port
where Paul landed on the ship from Alexandria by the Three Taverns.
Continue north to the city of Gaeta. Dinner and overnight
DAY 7:
. .....and
so we went toward Rome. Acts 28:14
Breakfast and departure
towards Rome. First stop will be in Minturno to visit the ruins of this
well preserved roman village located along the Appian Way , which is the
same that St, Paul would have seen during his trip to Rome. Continue
north passing along the sites of Foro Appio and Tres Tabernaes, still
on the Appian Way
......and so we
went toward Rome. Acts 28:14 The brothers there had heard that we
were coming and they traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the
Three Taverns to meet us... Acts 28:15
Arrive in Rome in the
late afternoon, for dinner and overnight at our hotel.
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8:
When we got to
Rome. Paul as allowed to leave by himself with a soldier to guard him
....... Acts 28:16
Breakfast at hotel and
transfer to St, Peter's Basilica for a visit. Board your bus and
transfer to central Rome for a walk through the very core of Roman
antiquity. We see Trajan's Market, Nero's Golden House, Trajan's Forum
and Column, Arch of Constantine, House of Knights of Rhodes. We visit the
Mamertine Prisons, where St. Peter was held prisoner, we continue our
visit with the Roman Forum, that was the civic heart of Republican Rome.
Proceeding then along Via Fori Imperiali, to see Arch of Titus the
Emperor who destroyed Jerusalem in A.D. 70. We will also visit St. Peter
in Vincoli - see the Michelangelo's Moses - and Colosseum. Then, drive
through the Ancient Appian Way and visit the St. Sebastian's Catacombs
where the bodies of St. Paul and St Peter were laid before moving them
to St. Peter's and St. Paul's churches. Return to hotel for dinner and
overnight.
DAY 9:
Salutate Prisca
and Aquila, my collaborators in Christ Jesus in order to save life to me
they has risked their head 4 and to they I am not only pleasing, but
all the Churches of the Kind ones... 5 greeted also the community that
gathers in their house.... Letters to Romans 16, 3 - 5
After breakfast,
transfer to the Church of St. Paul within the walls to attend the
Anglican Sunday ceremony. The tour continues with a visit to the
church of St. Paul "Alla Regola" where Paul lived and worked as a
"leather tanner" during his second stay in Rome or the "Mitreo" in the
church of "Santa Prisca", where St, Paul lived with his Greek friends
Aquila and Prisca. After lunch, transfer to the Basilica of Saint Paul
outside the walls built on the remembered tomb of San Paul. Rest of the
day at leisure. Dinner and overnight at hotel.
DAY 10:
Morning breakfast at hotel and day at leisure. It would be possible to
visit the Vatican Museums with Sistine Chapel and the Basilica of St.
Peter. Dinner at hotel and overnight
DAY 11:
Breakfast and departure towards the airport for your flight to return
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