Padre Pio has always been closely linked both to their places of origin, then Pietrelcina, those in which he lived for many years, San Giovanni Rotondo, and thanks to that and its great vitality, always turned to the next and the less fortunate , Which has left many memories and unique photographic evidence.
Padre Pio arrived for the first time in San Giovanni Rotondo 28 July 1916, when he still had 29 years to stay until 23 September 1968, the day of his death. Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo has lived most of his life there and still it has its crypt, which houses every year, thousands of pilgrims from all over the world.
