Welcome to Pansion Porta - Medjugorje. Let your stay in Medjugorje, the shrine of peace, be unforgotten you want your hosts John and Catherine Bencun.

Pansion "Porta" from the beginning of the first apparition of Our Lady, it is only religious tourism. We are located in Medjugorje, near the church of approx. 800 meters (5-10 minute walk). We have tried this 20 years long tradition of pilgrimage to remain with their families to ex-heart could devote all of our guests.

It would be our great pleasure, if you choose to stay in our boarding house, and we'll do our best, to feel comfortable with us and the Shrine of the Queen of Peace in Medjugorje.

If you want to relax, spend the night or longer stay in our land there is the Porta-board which has 34 rooms, "B" category with a total of 68 beds - 4 single, 19 double, 4 triples and 7 twin rooms. Each room possesses a bathroom and toilet. We offer rooms with a view to the Apparition Hill and Cross Mountain. We own a room for pilgrims with 100 seats, and with the service of meals at the same time you can enjoy our local wine and dishes from these regions. The hotel is located in the Internet cafe, TV room and a coffee bar, reception, where you can refresh and also taste our authentic Herzegovina wines and specialties.

Our guests can take in a tour of the Shrine of Our Lady of Medjugorje or the surrounding area. In agreement with the agencies hosts group. To visit the shrine of Medjugorje and the surrounding area offer the guides at the church of St. James, who speaks English, Italian, German and Hungarian, that care for you and arrange many meetings with the visionaries and the priests from the shrine, as well as Podbrdo (Apparition Hill) and the Cross . There is the possibility of organizing the trip to Dubrovnik, Split, Mostar and Herzegovina historic places.

In Medjugorje, you can get there by car road Split - Mostar or bus lines that drive from Split, Zagreb and Rijeka to Medjugorje. The nearest airports are Split and Dubrovnik.

Medjugorje is a village west-Citluk, historical Brotnja. Medjugorje gave the name of a large rimokatoličkoj parish, and in recent times is one of the most famous and most visited pilgrim places in the whole Catholic world. Name Medjugorje is of Slavic origin and means the area between two mountains. Area of the parish extends to an altitude of 200 and has a mild Mediterranean climate that provides ideal conditions for the cultivation of wine, tobacco and fruit.

The parish of Medjugorje was founded in 1892. year and placed under the protection of St.. James, the patron of pilgrims. Only five years later, the old parish church of Sts. James in Medjugorje. At that time it was sufficiently large and beautiful, but built on earthquake prone ground, it soon began to sink and crack. Therefore, after I. St. War began to think to build a new church which was completed and blessed 19th January 1969. Although till then it attracted no attention, even people from the nearest surroundings, the church of Medjugorje in the summer of 1981. year became the focal point for the gathering of millions of pilgrims from all over the world. People began to come in person to see and be convinced of the extraordinary events in Medjugorje. Here they had a message about the necessity of faith, prayer, repentance, fasting, as the preconditions of peace and salvation of the world.

Church and after the beginning of the apparitions the, as well as the area around it. The remains of the old church are preserved in the park at the roundabout on the left side of the shrine.