We will meet up at 10 am in the Tangol Office located in San Telmo neighborhood. We will start the tour for all those emblematic places in Jorge Bergoglio’s life. In this guided tour that takes 3 hours, we will visit churches, educational institutions and his beloved Club Atletico San Lorenzo de Almagro, among other places that were part of his life in Buenos Aires. The first stop, would be his childhood house in the neighborhood of Flores where he lived with his parents and his siblings.
Then, you will visit the schools he attended such as the Instituto Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia & Universidad del Salvador as well as the Iglesia del Salvador. You will visit the church of his childhood and adolescence: The Basilica de San Jose de Flores. This was the Basilica where he received his "divine call" and began serving the Church. He said: "(at that exact moment) I immersed myself in God`s mercy". In this Church, Jorge Bergoglio decided to become a priest.
Afterwards, we will continue following Jorge Bergoglio’s journey by seeing the Basílica de María Auxiliadora y San Carlos where he was baptized. Also, we will know the history of while we have a panoramic view of the Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro, of which Pope Francis is passionate fan. Then, we will visit the San Ignacio de Loyola Church, in the Montserrat district, built by the Jesuits in 1675. This is the oldest Church in Buenos Aires and it is part of the “Manzanas de las luces”.
We will continue to Plaza de Mayo and in front of this, there is the main catholic temple of Argentina: The Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires. This important 16th century building, was declared a historical monument in 1942, is the Cathedral where the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Bergoglio, gave important Masses. Also here, the devoted followers of Pope Francis awaited the announcement that he would proclaim him as Supreme Pontiff.