Religious Tour - Giubileum 2000 - ROMA
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The principal destination of the PILGRIMAGE JUBILEAN IN ROME are the four basiliche patriarcali: 

SANPIETRO IN VATICANO

SAN PAOLO FUORI LE MURA

SANTI SALVATORE E GIOVANNI BATTISTA ED EVANGELISTA IN LATERANO

SANTI SALVATORE E GIOVANNI BATTISTA ED EVANGELISTA IN LATERANO

Even if the square and the colonnade of San Pietro will be the prechosen place of the grands events of the 2000, many manifestation will be held in San Giovanni, first Basilica of Rome, and in San Paolo, the biggest basilica of Christianity before the construction of San Pietro basilica, built in  the place in the evangelist had been buried. The celebrations dedicated to the cult of the virgin and the Birth will be carried out in Santa Maria Maggiore, raised up after il counsel of Efeso in 431 that ratified the divine mothern hood of the Madonna.

But the pilgrames to Rome cannot be limited to, the four basislicas and their holy doors: in the historic downtown the churches in whitch the faithful met to pray before initiating the visit and the national churches, referral points for every foreign community. Have been singled out other places of devotion will be the catacombs (San Callisto, San Sebastiano, Domitilla, Priscilla, Santa Agnese e Santi Pietro e Marcellino), the coliseum and the Santuario del Divino amore.