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Christianity sacred sites in Italy
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Sanctuary of Vicoforte
Vicoforte, Cuneo, Italy
The corrected record treats Vicoforte as the physical sanctuary visitors enter. The devotional image remains part of the building's history without being confused with the...
Santa Casa di Loreto
Inside Santuario della Santa Casa di Loreto
Loreto, Ancona, Italy
At the center of Loreto's basilica, enclosed within Bramante's marble screen, stand three rough stone walls....
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....
Santuario della Santa Casa di Loreto
Loreto, Ancona, Italy
Three stone walls, tradition holds, once formed the house where the angel appeared to Mary in Nazareth....
Santuario di N.S. di Oropa, Italy
Biella, Biella, Italy
Oropa rises in the Biellese Alps at 1,159 meters, the largest Marian sanctuary in the Alpine world....
Santuario di Nostra Signora di Gonare
Orani, Nuoro, Italy
At 1,100 metres above sea level, the Santuario di Nostra Signora di Gonare is the highest church in Sardinia....
Santuario di San Pio da Pietrelcina
San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy
In the Gargano peninsula of Puglia, the Sanctuary of San Pio da Pietrelcina marks the place where Padre Pio — the Capuchin friar who bore the visible wounds of Christ's...
Santuario di Santa Rita, Cascia
Cascia, Perugia, Italy
The basilica houses the incorrupt body of Saint Rita of Cascia, an Augustinian nun canonized in 1900 and venerated across the Catholic world as patroness of impossible...
Santuario francescano di Fontecolombo
Fontecolombo, Rieti, 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...
Shroud of Turin
Inside Turin Cathedral
Turin, Turin, Italy
The Shroud rests in a sealed conservation case in the last chapel of Turin Cathedral's left aisle. It is not normally visible and is removed only for public expositions....
The Sanctuary of Saint Rosalia
Palermo, Palermo, Italy
High on Monte Pellegrino above Palermo, a sanctuary extends into the cave where a twelfth-century noblewoman spent her final years in solitary prayer....
The Sanctuary of Tindari
Patti, Messina, Italy
On a promontory 180 meters above the Tyrrhenian Sea, where Greeks once worshipped Ceres and Byzantine sailors found refuge from a storm, stands one of Sicily's most...
Turin Cathedral
Turin, Turin, Italy
Turin Cathedral is an active metropolitan church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist....
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