Upon arrival at Rome airport your tour escort will greet and welcome you to Italy. Start with a tour of this amazing city, which has the inique combination of being the spiritual capital for all Catholics and the centre of Western Civilization. Visit a vast collections of masterpieces in the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel where you will see Michelangelos famous ceiling and Last Judgment. This afternoon, during your Christian Rome tour, you will visit St. John in Lateran, the cathedral of Rome. You will also see the Holy Steps climbed by Christ in Jerusalem, and the Basilica of the Holy Cross, where some of Christianitys most important relics, including one of the True Cross. Of all the churches in Rome dedicated to the Madonna, visit the largest, Santa Maria Maggiore which was built in 440 by Pope Sixtus III. Celebrate Mass at Santa Maria Maggiore . Dinner and overnight (B,D)