

Join a private tour from Rome to visit the Shrine of Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo.
Explore the full itinerary for Padre Pio's Shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo Private Tour from Rome in Rome, Italy. This culinary tours experience includes 2 stops over 1 day. Duration: 12 hours. Activity level: Extreme.

After the death of Padre Pio, the Saints friars thought of constructing new church, because it is too sensitive to the material and spiritual needs of the devotees, the existing church could not contain. 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.