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Follow the early life of Argentina's own Pope Francis through the neighborhood where he grew up.
Visit Pope Francis's former school, his home neighborhood, and the Basilica of San José de Flores while your private guide shares stories of his early life and family history.
A genuinely intimate, focused tour rather than a general city overview — this route follows Pope Francis's actual early life in the Flores neighborhood, well outside the usual downtown tourist circuit.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point confirmed after booking; hotel pickup available in central Buenos Aires.
Visit the church where a young Jorge Bergoglio (the future Pope Francis) had a formative religious experience.
See the streets and school connected to his upbringing in Flores.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Visit Pope Francis's former school, his home neighborhood, and the Basilica of San José de Flores while your private guide shares stories of his early life and family history. A genuinely intimate, focused tour rather than a general city overview — this route follows Pope Francis's actual early life in the Flores neighborhood, well outside the usual downtown tourist circuit.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio's family story is itself a very Buenos Aires one: his father, Mario José Bergoglio, emigrated from Italy's Piedmont region and arrived in Argentina in 1928, with the wider family settling in Buenos Aires by 1932. Mario married Regina María Sívori, also the child of Italian immigrants, in 1935, and Jorge Mario — the future Pope Francis — was born the following year, on December 17, 1936. He grew up in Flores, a solidly middle-class residential barrio well south of the city's main tourist circuit, in a house on what is today Membrillar Street, where a plaque now marks the site.
The single most significant stop on this route is the Basilica of San José de Flores, a neo-Gothic parish church inaugurated in 1883. According to Bergoglio's own later account, it was there, during confession on September 21, 1953 — Argentina's Student Day — that the then-17-year-old felt a profound call to the priesthood, a moment he described as being '…surprised by someone who was waiting for me.' A plaque near the confessional today commemorates the encounter, and Bergoglio himself referred back to this exact date for the rest of his life as the turning point of his vocation.
What followed was a long, largely local career rather than a fast rise: he was ordained a priest in 1969, became auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires in 1992, and was named Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 — a post he held for roughly fifteen years, celebrated most visibly at the Metropolitan Cathedral on Plaza de Mayo, before his election as pope in March 2013. That long, mostly unglamorous tenure as a working archbishop in his own home city is part of why Flores, rather than anywhere in the Vatican, is where his story as a public figure really begins.
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