The Rosary Walk

The Rosary Walk has always been one of all time favourite sites to visit in Pietrelcina.

Pietrelcina is quite a small town set amidst undulating countryside which surrounds it like a folded blanket of green fields and wooded areas. It is very picturesque but, for a farming community, causes one or two problems. Most villagers owned small parcels of land which were handed down through their families and these were scattered widely about the area.

The Forgione family owned a small plot of land on the wide, flat plain of Piana Romana (Roman Plain). They had built a small stone room where they stored some of the produce and also slept overnight if they had worked late and did not want to return to the town. 

Since he was a young boy, Francesco would walk along a well worn pathway, through countryside and woodland, with his family members. As they walked, they would recite the rosary.

As Francesco grew up, he would follow this 3 km path many, many times, always reciting the rosary as he went. 

This pathway has now been partly paved and the mysteries of the rosary displayed on tiled stands at intervals along the way. This is "The Rosary Walk".