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Aosta Cathedral (Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta e San Giovanni Battista)
Aosta, Aosta Valley, Italy
Aosta Cathedral is the seat of the Diocese of Aosta and a long-lived Christian landmark on the Italian Via Francigena....
Basilica di San Benedetto, Norcia
Norcia, Perugia, Italy
Beneath this basilica's rebuilt nave lies the crypt tradition identifies as the birthplace of Saint Benedict of Nursia and his twin sister Scholastica, the symbolic origin...
Basilica di San Clemente, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Basilica di San Clemente descends through time itself. Beneath a luminous twelfth-century church lies a fourth-century basilica, and deeper still, a Roman Mithraeum where...
Basilica di San Giulio
Orta San Giulio, Novara, Italy
On a small island in the center of Lake Orta, a Romanesque basilica holds the relics of the 4th-century Greek evangelist who founded it after — according to legend —...
Basilica di San Michele Maggiore
Pavia, Pavia, Italy
The Basilica of San Michele Maggiore is an active Roman Catholic church in Pavia and a notable survival of Lombard Romanesque design....
Basilica di Sant’ Agostino, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Sant'Agostino holds the relics of Saint Monica, whose persistent prayers over decades brought her wayward son Augustine to faith....
Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Beneath the high altar of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere lies the saint for whom musicians pray....
Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
On the site where legend says oil sprang from the earth foretelling the Messiah's birth, Santa Maria in Trastevere rises as possibly Rome's oldest church dedicated to the...
Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Naples, Naples, Italy
Rising above the ancient Piazza del Mercato, the Basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine Maggiore holds the Madonna Bruna, an icon traditionally attributed to Saint Luke that...
Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Santa Maria Maggiore stands as the largest and oldest Marian sanctuary in the Western world....
Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Vercelli
Vercelli, Vercelli, Italy
Sant'Andrea in Vercelli is a living Catholic basilica founded by Cardinal Guala Bicchieri beside a medieval pilgrim hospital....
Basilica of Santa Cristina, Bolsena
Bolsena, Viterbo, Italy
Santa Cristina in Bolsena is an active Catholic basilica and longstanding Via Francigena pilgrimage church....
Basilica of St. Lawrence Outside the Walls, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
San Lorenzo fuori le Mura marks the tomb of Saint Lawrence, the deacon who named the poor as the Church's true treasure and faced death with legendary courage....
Basilica of St. Mary of Minerva, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Santa Maria sopra Minerva rises above ancient temple foundations, one block from the Pantheon....
Basilica of St. Nicholas, Bari, Italy
Bari, Bari, Italy
In Bari's old town, a white limestone basilica holds the relics of the saint who became Santa Claus....
Basilica of St. Sebastian Outside the Walls, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
San Sebastiano fuori le Mura stands on the ancient Appian Way, above the catacombs that gave all Christian underground cemeteries their name....
Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme does not merely honor the Holy Cross—it claims to stand on Jerusalem itself....
Basilica Parrocchiale di Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Santa Maria del Popolo rises where legend says Pope Paschal II exorcised the demons haunting Nero's grave....
Basilica santuario di Maria Santissima Addolorata
Castelpetroso, Isernia, Italy
In 1888, two shepherdesses on the slopes of Monte Patalecchia reported seeing the Madonna Addolorata — the Mother of Sorrows — holding the body of Christ....
Basilica Santuario Nostra Signora di Bonaria
Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
On a hill overlooking Cagliari and the Mediterranean, a statue of the Virgin arrived by sea during a storm in 1370—the candle in her hand still burning when the crate was...
Cathedral of Syracuse
Syracuse (Siracusa), Syracuse, Italy
In the heart of Syracuse, Doric columns from a fifth-century BC Greek temple rise within the walls of a Baroque cathedral....
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Rieti
Rieti, Rieti, Italy
The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta has anchored Christian worship in Rieti since at least the sixth century....
Chiesa di Nostra Signora di Tergu
Zelgu/Tergu, Sassari, Italy
In the Sardinian countryside south of Castelsardo, a church of wine-red trachyte and white limestone has stood for nearly a thousand years....
Chiesa di San Domenico
Rieti, Rieti, Italy
In 1229, four women wishing to live as Franciscan nuns received the house of blessed Angelo Tancredi, one of Saint Francis's earliest companions, in the city of Rieti....
Chiesa di San Pietro della Ienca
San Pietro della Ienca, L'Aquila, Italy
On the slopes of the Gran Sasso, a small Romanesque church stands in a hamlet that time nearly forgot....
Chiesa di Santa Chiara
Rieti, Rieti, Italy
In 1229, four women wishing to live as Franciscan nuns received the house of blessed Angelo Tancredi, one of Saint Francis's earliest companions, in the city of Rieti....
Church of the Holy Trinity Saccargia (Basilica della Santissima Trinita de Saccargia)
Codronzanu/Codrongianos, Sassari, Italy
The Basilica della Santissima Trinità di Saccargia rises from the pastoral Sardinian countryside in dramatic stripes of black basalt and white limestone....
Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta, San Gimignano
San Gimignano, Siena, Italy
San Gimignano's Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta is the town's principal active Catholic church and a sacred landmark on the Via Francigena....
Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Sutri
Sutri, Sutri, Lazio, Italy
The record concerns a living church and pilgrimage site within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Fidenza Cathedral
Fidenza, Parma, Italy
Fidenza Cathedral is the active Catholic shrine and cathedral of Saint Domninus on the Via Francigena....
Ivrea Cathedral
Ivrea, Turin, Italy
Ivrea Cathedral is the active Catholic seat of the Diocese of Ivrea and a sacred landmark in a Via Francigena city....
Lucca Cathedral (Duomo di San Martino)
Lucca, Lucca, Italy
Lucca Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Lucca and a major stop within the Italian Via Francigena landscape....
Piacenza Cathedral
Piacenza, Piacenza, Italy
Piacenza Cathedral is the active Catholic church of Santa Maria Assunta and Santa Giustina in a historic Via Francigena city....
San Giovanni Battista
Cervo, Savona, Italy
In the summer of 1223, Saint Francis of Assisi retreated to a cave on the forested slopes of Monte Rainiero, five kilometers from Rieti, and spent forty days writing the...
San Nicola in Carcere, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
San Nicola in Carcere preserves Rome's sacred stratigraphy in visible form. A medieval church literally incorporates the columns and foundations of three Roman Republican...
Santa Maria Assunta, Assergi
Assergi, L'Aquila, Italy
At the base of Gran Sasso, Assergi's parish church conceals a secret beneath its modest Romanesque facade....
Siena Cathedral
Siena, Siena, Italy
Siena Cathedral is the active Catholic cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta and a principal sacred stop on the city's Via Francigena route....
Turin Cathedral
Turin, Turin, Italy
Turin Cathedral is an active metropolitan church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist....
Viterbo Cathedral
Viterbo, Viterbo, Italy
Viterbo Cathedral is the active Catholic cathedral of Saint Lawrence beside the city's papal palace and on the Via Francigena approach to Rome....
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