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Monsignor Romero City Tour

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Bishop. Romero City Tour is a unique touristic circuit in El Salvador, due its recent historical value. Mgr Romero, a salvadorean priest and archbishop, whose work went trough the international history because his ecclesiastical work in favor of the poor and justice, which earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The City Tour will allow you to feel and experience the life and work of Mgr. Rosemary, a man of faith who broadcast to the world a message of hope, which lives on in the hearts of the Salvadoran people and thousands of followers of his word in the world.

The City Tour

This tour includes a tour that starts at the Romero Center and UCA Martyrs Museum, continues at the Cathedral of San Salvador to visit the crypt of Mgr. Rosemary, then you visit the Museum of the Word and Image(MUPI), and ends at the Centre History Monsignor Romero, in the Divine Providence Hospital.

Schedule

Morning

Romero Center and Museum of Martyrs, UCA (1 hour)

Cathedral of San Salvador (40 minutes)

Afternoon

Museum of the Word The Image, MUPI (1 hour)

Romero Historical Center, Divine Providence Hospital (1 hour)

Extendend Tour

The City Tour Romero extends the route to two days, visiting the National Museum of Anthropology (FIRST), you can also visit in Santa Tecla, the Sanctuary of Monsignor Romero, and El Paseo El Carmen. The extension of the tour also suggests visiting the historical center of San Salvador: The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus(Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus), the Rosary Church(Iglesia El Rosario) and the National Palace(National Palace).

Schedule

Pass by the statue of Monsignor Romero, Savior of the World Square

National Museum of Anthropology, First (1 hour)

Sanctuary of Monsignor Romero, Chacón Sisters House (1 hour)

Paseo El Carmen (3 hours)

National Palace (1 hour)

Rosario Church (40 minutes)

Sacred Heart Basilica (40 minutes)

Points of interest within the City Tour

Romero Center and Museum of the Martyrs, UCA

Exposes the museum in honor of the martyrs and victims of the civil war, and in the “Hall of Martyrs”, personal items of Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero.

Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador

In the Cathedral lie the remains of Monsignor Romero. His crypt is the bishop “sleeping the sleep of the just”, surrounded by the four evangelists.

Museum of the Word and Image MUPI

It exhibits a series of photographs of Monsignor Romero, which presents a review of his travels and his love of photography, named “Rosemary, Voice and Mirada.”

Romero Historical Center, Divine Providence Hospital

The Historic Center opens its doors to show the house in which lived Monsignor Romero, while he was Archbishop of San Salvador, until his assassination in the chapel of the hospital. (Suggested donation hospital office)

National Museum of Anthropology, FIRST

One of the museum’s permanent exhibits, is the religion’s room in which is presented a chronological overview of life and work of Mgr. Rosemary.

National Palace

Declared a national monument in 1974. It has combined Neoclassical style, Gothic and Renaissance.

The Rosary Church

It has a modern architectural design with European which is unique in the american continent. The structure has no pillars, giving a full view to the altar.

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Neo-Gothic style with influences of the nineteenth century hosted of the Archbishop of San Salvador, between 1989 and 1999.

Paseo El Carmen

With a bohemian atmosphere, live music and delicious local and international cuisine, you will reach the main icon of this place, the majestic El Carmen church, temple reared in the eighteenth century.

Romero Sanctuary, Sisters Chacón

Sisters Chacon family was very close to Monsignor Romero, they can tell us stories, anecdotes and especially they talk about the simplicity of Mgr. Rosemary, he used to call them his family. Here you can enjoy the special dish called “Frijolitos Monsignor Romero”

More info

Martyrs Museum (UCA)

Central University “Jose Simeon Canas”

Hours: monday to friday 08:00 a.m. to 12:00 m and the 14:00 a 18:00 p.m., saturdays from 8:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Boulevard Los Heroes, San Salvador,

Tel: (503) 2210-6600

www.uca.edu.sv / cmr

Metropolitan Cathedral

Hours: monday to saturdat (tuesday closed) from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 m and 14:30 – 17:00 p.m., sunday is all day open.

Calle Rubén Darío, front of Civic Plaza, adjacent to Plaza Barrios

Tel: (503) 2221-0003

www.catedralsansalvador.org

Word and Image Museum (Museum of The Word and The Image)

Hours: Monday to friday from 08:00 a.m. to 12:00 m and 14:00 to 17:00 p.m., saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 m.

27 By. North, 1140 Hope ColoniaLa, San Salvador.

Tel: (503)2564-7005

comunicacionesmupi@gmail.com , mupi@museo.com.sv

www.museo.com.sv

Divine Providence Hospital

Hours: Monday to friday from 08:00 a.m. to 12:00 m and 14:00 to 16:30 p.m.

Final Toluca Street and Avenida Rocio, Colonia Miramonte, San Salvador.

Tel: (503) 2260-8047, 2260-0509

directora@hospitaldivinaprovidencia.org

www.hospitaldivinaprovidencia.org

National Museum of Anthropology. FIRST

Hours: Tuesday to sunday from 09:00 a.m. to 17:00 p.m

AvenidaLa Revolution, Colonia San Benito,

Tel.: (503) 2243-3927, 2243-3750

comunicaciones.muna @ cultura.gob.sv

National Palace of San Salvador

Calle Rubén Darío, in front of the Plaza GerardoBarrios, near Metropolitan Cathedral and the National Library,

Downtown San Salvador.

Tel: (503) 2222-7674, 2222-9415

El Rosario Church

4East Second Street South and 6th Avenue, versus Freedom Park.

Tel: (503) 2222-2171. Site

www.elsalvador.travel / church-the-rosary

Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Maple Street, Nº 810, San Salvador

Tel: (503) 2222-8606, 2221-4651

Paseo El Carmen

1 ª Calle Oriente, Santa Tecla.

www.paseoelcarmen.com.sv

Sanctuary of Monsignor Romero, Chacón Sisters

Hours: monday to friday from 08:00 a.m. to 17:00 p.m.

Colonia Las Delicias, 4 ª Calle Poniente, #18, Santa Tecla.

Tel: (503) 2228-0269

Archbishop of San Salvador / Library

Publications and souvenirs of Monsignor Romero

Medical Cologne, By. Dr. Emilio Álvarez y Av. Dr. Max Bloch, San Salvador.

Tel: (503) 2226-0501, 2235-3597.

libreria@arzobispadosansalvador.org

“Corn Group”

Publications and souvenirs of Monsignor Romero

29 By. North, #1117, Colonia Buenos Aires, San Salvador.

Tel: (503) 2225-0488

National Handicraft Market

On Pan-American Highway driving to Santa Tecla, in front of Ball Park next to the Ministry of Public Works (MOP)

Tel: (503) 2534-977

Salvadorean Chamber of Tourism

Passage 1 #8, Cologne Avila, San Salvador.

PBX: (503) 2132-0200. E-mail:

asistente@casatur.org

ASOTUR

Salvadorean Association of Tour Operators

Phone: (503) 2209-8888, 2209-8815

Website: www.asotur.org

APROTURES

Salvadorean Promoter and Touristic Operators Association

Phone: (503) 2260-4314

Website: www.aprotures.com

Monsignor Romero City Tour

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