Over the years, millions of the faithful have flocked to the small village of Lourdes 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.

The Basilica of Saint Pius X, informally known as the Underground Basilica, is a large Roman Catholic Church and minor basilica, located in the town of Lourdes.

The Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica 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.