Lourdes Three Day Private Pilgrimage with Hotel Included

Your private driver meets you at Tarbes-Lourdes airport or Lourdes station, whatever time your flight or train arrives, and takes you to your 4-star hotel within walking distance of the Sanctuary. Lourdes is where the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous 18 times at the Grotto of Massabielle between 11 February and 16 July 1858. After dinner at the hotel, walk down to the Sanctuary for the Marian Torchlight Procession, when thousands of pilgrims carry candles and pray the Rosary in many languages (held nightly from April to October).

urdes nestled at the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains in Southwestern France where it is said the sick can be healed miraculously. In 1858, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared eighteen times to a local girl, Bernadette. We will visit the famous Grotto of Massabielle where Bernadette experienced her visions and where the healing spring flows. We will visit the Rosary, St. Pius X, and Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Basilicas, as well as the healing baths, the candle trolleys, Bernadette's home, the jail she and her family lived in, among other Bernadette-related sites.

large Roman Catholic Church and minor basilica, located in the town of Lourdes.

lica within the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France

Your guide takes you to the Boly Mill, the house where Bernadette Soubirous was born in 1844 and lived until she was 10, and tells the story of her family before the apparitions.

Visit the Cachot, the former town jail where the Soubirous family lived in a single room in deep poverty when Bernadette saw the apparitions in 1858.

After breakfast, your driver picks you up from the hotel at a time matched to your train or flight and transfers you to Lourdes station or Tarbes-Lourdes airport.