Day 1: MEXICO CITY

Personalized welcome at Mexico City's Benito Juárez International Airport, check-in at your hotel.

In the afternoon, during our welcome dinner, we will enjoy views of Mexico City from the 45th floor of the World Trade Center at the exclusive "Bellini" restaurant, which holds the Guinness World Record as the world's largest revolving restaurant.

The view from the top is mesmerizing, as we will travel at a speed of almost imperceptible one meter per minute along the 360-degree route of the Bellini Restaurant, while enjoying a delicious menu consisting of:

Mixed salad, creamed corn, salmon in lemon sauce, or steak in mushroom sauce, or chicken supreme with shrimp, house cake, coffee or tea, and one national beverage per person.

Overnight in Mexico City

Day 02: SHRINE OF THE FIFTH GUADALUPAN APPARITION-TEOTIHUACAN-BASILICA

Our visit today will continue with a visit to the Shrine of the Fifth Apparition in Tulpetlac, which was erected to commemorate the Fifth Apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Juan Bernardino (Saint Juan Diego’s uncle), and where he was cured of the diseases that had him near death. In this Apparition, she asks to be known as the "Always Virgin Holy Mary of Guadalupe."

There is a possibility for our pilgrims to partake in the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick if they so desire.

We will continue our tour heading to the Teotihuacan Archaeological Zone to visit the main sites of this location, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987 due to its cultural and artistic influence throughout a large part of Mesoamerica.

Today's lunch will be enjoyed at the restaurant "El Gran Teocalli," where we will enjoy an abundant and well-stocked buffet. We will continue with the Insigne and National Basilica of our Lady of Guadalupe, the most important pilgrimage center in Mexico and the Christian world. It is the mixed-race cradle of Christianity and a Marian heart par excellence, the pride of our people, and an unequivocal sign of divine election. It annually receives more than 22 million visitors.

We will visit the entire Tepeyac enclosure: the Expiatory Temple (the old Basilica), the former Convent of Capuchinas, the Parish of the Indians, El Pocito (The little well), La Ofrenda (The Offering), La Vela del Marino (The Sailor's Candle), the Chapel of El Cerrito, the Baptistery, the Museum of the Basilica of Guadalupe, the Statue of Saint John Paul II, and the Carillon, along with an explanation of each one.

In this place, we will be able to contemplate Juan Diego's tilma (cloak), where the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously imprinted, becoming since then the most irrefutable sign of the Guadalupan Event and an unequivocal sign of divine election.

Participants will have time to purchase and bless religious souvenirs.

Celebration of the Holy Mass. It is essential for the priest intending to celebrate to process the authorization beforehand in the Sacristy of the Insigne and National Basilica of our Lady of Guadalupe.

Overnight in Mexico City.

Day 03: TLATELOLCO-HISTORIC CENTER-METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL-XOCHIMILCO

Transfer to the Plaza de las Tres Culturas (Square of the Three Cultures), so named because it combines pre-Hispanic, viceregal, and contemporary architecture. This was the place of the baptism and doctrine of Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin.

The House of Bishop Zumárraga and the place of the imprinting of the Virgin's image on Juan Diego's tilma in the city's Historic Center.

We will visit the Former Archbishopric, today the Museum of the Secretariat of Finance, where the miracle of the "Imprinting" of Saint Juan Diego's tilma took place.

The sixth place of the "Guadalupan Event" to visit will be the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción," the first and largest in Mexico and the Americas, built over more than 200 years. We will see its Baroque-style facades, its chapels, the choir, the Altar of the Kings, the Altar of Forgiveness, and the Sacristy where the Holy Cloth of the Virgin of Guadalupe was briefly exhibited, as well as the crypt of the archbishops where the remains of the witness to the "Imprinting" or the "Miracle of the Roses" rest: Friar Juan de Zumárraga.

In the Metropolitan Cathedral, in the Sacristy, we will see the site where the Holy Cloth of the Blessed Virgin was exhibited, concluding here our pilgrimage along the "Route of Saint Juan Diego to the encounter with the Virgin of Guadalupe."

We will observe the most important sights of the Historic Center (Zocalo), which to date, has about 1,500 cataloged monuments across 668 blocks.

We will see a panoramic view of the Aztec Templo Mayor, on whose summit we will observe two altars, the first consecrated to Huitzilopochtli, God of War, and the other to Tláloc, God of Rain. We will also see the local government buildings and the one that houses the Presidency of the Republic, among others, all silent witnesses to this country's nearly 700 years of history.

The Historic Center of Mexico City was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987.

Finally, we will arrive at Xochimilco, "The Place of Flowers," also included on the UNESCO World Heritage List (1987). It is the only remnant of the city's origins with the chinampas (floating gardens) built among its canals, which are an example of how humans gained ground from the lake area for cultivation and habitation. We will sail on one of its typical "trajineras" (colorful, flat-bottomed boats) for a period of 45 minutes, exploring part of this folkloric location.

Transfer and overnight at your hotel in Mexico City.

Day 04: THE HOLY FAMILY

Today, we begin our day by visiting the Church of the Holy Family to learn about Blessed Miguel Pro, who was a Jesuit priest executed for carrying out his priestly duties during the persecution of the Catholic Church under the presidency of President Plutarco Elías Calles in the 1920s.

Father Miguel Pro was Beatified by Pope Saint John Paul II in 1988 and was an inspiring figure during the conflicts of religious intolerance in our country. The Cristeros defended the Catholic faith with the cry, "Long live Christ the King and the Virgin of Guadalupe!"

We will visit the small Museum of Blessed Miguel Pro, where we will learn more about his life and work, and receive a third-class relic.

While visiting Coyoacán, our friends will have time to enjoy the festive atmosphere generated every weekend in the area, regardless of economic class or social position. They will be entertained by the mimes that abound there and listen to the nostalgic notes of the street organ grinders.

Overnight in Mexico City.

Day 05: MEXICO – AIRPORT

Early morning transfer to Mexico City International Airport.

IT INCLUDES:

• Transfers Airport/Hotel/airport

• Four nights Hotel Royal Reforma

• Daily breakfast at hotel

• Certified Guide knowledgeable about the "Guadalupan Event"

• Entrance fees to the Teotihuacan Archaeological Zone

• Round trip transportation on all tours

• Abundant and well-stocked buffet Tehotihuacan

• Trajinera ride in the canals of Xochimilco

• Reservations and stipends for daily Masses (only groups) Taxes and tips (VAT, Tips for chambermaids, bellboys and waiters on meals)

• Custom-designed personal tours available upon request

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