Spain

Naveta de Rafal Rubí

Alaior, Balearic Islands, Spain

Near Alaior on Menorca, two cyclopean stone tombs called navetas stand a few paces apart, their curved 'inverted boat' walls built around 1500-1000 BCE to hold the...

Naveta des Tudons

Ciutadella de Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Naveta des Tudons rises from open fields west of Ciutadella like an overturned ship carved from limestone — a Bronze Age collective tomb where more than a hundred people...

Numancia

Garray, Soria, Spain

Numantia is the excavated hilltop stronghold above Soria where the Arevaci, a Celtiberian people, resisted Rome for two decades before a final siege under Scipio...

Orihuela Cathedral

Orihuela, Alicante, Spain

Orihuela Cathedral is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante, built in Valencian Gothic style on the site of the city's principal mosque after the 1281...

Our Lady (Virgin) of Montserrat (La Moreneta)

Inside Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey

Marganell, Barcelona, Spain

High on a serrated mountain above Catalonia, the Black Madonna of Montserrat has drawn pilgrims for over a thousand years....

Our Lady of Atocha

Inside Royal Basilica of Our Lady of Atocha

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Steps from one of Europe's busiest train stations, the Real Basilica de Nuestra Senora de Atocha shelters Madrid's oldest Marian image, a 13th-century wooden figure to...

Our Lady of Chipiona

Inside Sanctuary of Our Lady of Regla, Chipiona

Chipiona, Cádiz, Spain

Where the Guadalquivir River meets the Atlantic, a dark-skinned Virgin has watched over sailors, prisoners, and pilgrims for seven centuries....

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Inside Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe

Guadalupe, Cáceres, Spain

The Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe in the Sierra de las Villuercas is a UNESCO World Heritage site (1993, ref 665) and one of Spain's most consequential...

Our Lady of Pena de Francia

Inside The Sanctuary of the Peña de Francia

El Cabaco, Salamanca, Spain

Rising 1,723 meters above the plains of Castilla y Leon, this mountain sanctuary guards an image of the Virgin hidden from invaders for centuries and rediscovered through...

Oviedo Cathedral and Holy Chamber

Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

Built by King Alfonso II in the early 9th century to house relics carried north ahead of the Moorish conquest, the Cámara Santa remains one of Christendom's most...

Palma Cathedral

Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain

Palma Cathedral, known locally as La Seu, stands directly on Palma's old sea wall, its immense Gothic nave and rose window visible from the water long before a visitor...

Pamplona Cathedral (Santa María la Real)

Pamplona, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain

The record concerns a living church and pilgrimage site within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Pena Molexa

Narón, A Coruña, Spain

On a hillside above the parish of O Val in Naron, Galicia, a multi-ton granite boulder shaped like a lunar disc rests between boat-shaped supporting stones....

Pla de Petracos Sanctuary

Castell de Castells, Alicante, Spain

Eight sheltered overhangs on a limestone cliff in the mountains of Alicante hold one of Europe's earliest known sanctuaries....

Poblet Monastery

Vimbodí i Poblet, Tarragona, Spain

Poblet is one of the largest inhabited monasteries in Europe: a single walled complex fusing abbey, fortress, and royal residence, founded in 1151 as a Cistercian daughter...

Puig de sa Morisca

Calvià, Balearic Islands, Spain

Puig de sa Morisca is a hilltop archaeological park in Calvià, Mallorca, preserving a Talayotic settlement founded around 1300 BCE and later reoccupied by Roman and...

Puig des Molins Necropolis

Eivissa, Balearic Islands, Spain

On a low hill just outside Ibiza's old town, the Phoenicians who founded the city in the mid-7th century BC chose a burial ground that would remain in continuous use for...

Rocio, Basilica of Nuestra Señora del Rocio

Almonte, Huelva, Spain

At the edge of the Doñana wetlands in Andalusia, the small village of El Rocío empties for most of the year....

Roman City of Pollentia

Alcúdia, Balearic Islands, Spain

Pollentia is the excavated Roman city on the edge of Alcúdia's old town — a forum, a theatre, and a residential quarter that together form the fullest surviving record of...

Roman Temple of Diana, Mérida

Mérida, Badajoz, Spain

Standing at the heart of Mérida's ancient forum, this 1st-century temple takes its popular name from a 17th-century historian's mistaken comparison to a Greek temple of...

Roncesvalles Collegiate Church

Roncesvalles/Orreaga, Navarre, Spain

Roncesvalles sits just past the Pyrenees crossing from France, at the point where the Camino Francés begins in earnest....

Royal Basilica of Our Lady of Atocha

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

The Royal Basilica provides the church, liturgy, and historical setting for the small image of Our Lady of Atocha....

Royal Basilica of San Francisco el Grande

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Inaugurated in 1784 by Charles III, the Royal Basilica of San Francisco el Grande pairs an active Franciscan parish with a dome built explicitly to rival the Pantheon and...

Royal Chapel of Granada

Granada, Granada, Spain

Built 1505-1517 by royal charter as the dynastic mausoleum of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, the Royal Chapel is both an active Catholic church and a...

Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe

Guadalupe, Cáceres, Spain

Founded around the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the royal monastery became one of the most influential Marian centres in the Iberian world....

Royal Monastery of Yuste

Cuacos de Yuste, Cáceres, Spain

The Royal Monastery of Yuste rises from the Sierra de Gredos foothills as a working Hieronymite foundation and, since the sixteenth century, as the place where Charles V —...

S'Aigua Dolça Dolmen

Artà, Balearic Islands, Spain

S'Aigua Dolca is a Bronze Age dolmen near the coast of northeastern Mallorca. Excavation in 1995 and 1996 documented a stone chamber used for collective burial, with...

S'Hospitalet Vell

Manacor, Balearic Islands, Spain

A Bronze Age to Iron Age village on Mallorca's east coast, where boat-shaped naveta houses stand alongside the island's only talayot tower still capped with its original...

S'Illot Talayotic Settlement

Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Balearic Islands, Spain

S'Illot preserves one of eastern Mallorca's most complete Talayotic villages: a central tower, roughly three dozen houses, and a defensive wall of huge unworked stones,...

Sa Caleta Phoenician Settlement

Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Balearic Islands, Spain

On a low headland between two coves on Ibiza's southwest coast, the stone foundations of Sa Caleta mark the island's earliest known Phoenician settlement....

Sa Cudia Cremada

Maó, Balearic Islands, Spain

Sa Cudia Cremada is a Talayotic settlement near Mao whose remains include two talayots, hypogea, water and storage features, and a taula enclosure interpreted as a...

Sacromonte Abbey

Granada, Granada, Spain

Sacromonte Abbey sits above Granada on the hillside renamed 'Sacred Mountain' after 1595, when caves beneath it yielded human remains and inscribed lead plates devotional...

Sagrada Família

Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

The Sagrada Família began in 1882 as an expiatory temple, funded entirely by donation, dedicated to the Holy Family....

San Sebastián Cathedral (Catedral del Buen Pastor)

San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain

San Sebastian's Cathedral of the Good Shepherd is the active seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Sebastian and a clear ecclesial landmark near the Camino del Norte....

Sanctuary of Bonany

Petra, Balearic Islands, Spain

On a 317-metre hill above the town of Petra, the Sanctuary of Bonany has drawn Mallorcan villagers to pray to the Virgin Mary since the early 1600s....

Sanctuary of Covadonga, Asturias, Spain

Cangas de Onís, Asturias, Spain

In the green mountains of Asturias, where the river Mestas emerges from rock and cascades past a limestone cave, a diminutive wooden Madonna known as La Santina has...

Sanctuary of Cura

Algaida, Balearic Islands, Spain

Sanctuary of Cura crowns Puig de Randa, the highest point of central Mallorca, and is the island's second most visited pilgrimage site after the Santuari de Lluc....

Sanctuary of Lluc

Escorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

High in Mallorca's Serra de Tramuntana, the Sanctuary of Lluc keeps a dark stone Virgin that tradition says was found by a shepherd in the 13th century....

Sanctuary of Loyola

Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa, Spain

Built around the medieval tower house where Ignatius of Loyola was born and later converted to a life of spiritual seeking, the Sanctuary of Loyola is the origin point of...

Sanctuary of Monti-Sion

Porreres, Balearic Islands, Spain

On a 250-meter hill outside Porreres, this Marian sanctuary has drawn Mallorcan pilgrims since the late 15th century....

Sanctuary of Nostra Senyora de Gràcia

Llucmajor, Balearic Islands, Spain

Built into the rock beneath a cliff face on Puig de Randa, the Sanctuary of Nostra Senyora de Gràcia began as a Franciscan hermit's cave in the mid-15th century and grew...

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Regla, Chipiona

Chipiona, Cádiz, Spain

The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Regla is the physical and liturgical home of the image recorded on Pilgrim Map as Our Lady of Chipiona....

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows, Badajoz, Spain

La Codosera, Badajoz, Spain

In May 1945, as World War II ended, the Virgin of Sorrows appeared to two girls in a chestnut grove near the Portuguese border in Extremadura. One was a ten-year-old child....

Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Head

Andújar, Jaén, Spain

High in the Sierra de Andújar's granite hills, this basilica-shrine holds one of Spain's most venerated Black Madonnas, discovered by legend in 1227 by a healed shepherd....

Sanctuary of Puig de Maria

Pollença, Balearic Islands, Spain

Reached only on foot, up a steep stone path above Pollença, this small Marian sanctuary was raised in 1348 as a town's collective plea against the Black Death....

Sanctuary of Sant Honorat

Algaida, Balearic Islands, Spain

Sant Honorat is the lower and least-visited of the three historic sanctuaries on Mallorca's Puig de Randa, founded by hermits in the 1390s and still home today to a small...

Sanctuary of Sant Ramon Nonat

Sant Ramon, Segarra, Spain

The sanctuary of Sant Ramon Nonat in Catalonia honours Saint Raymond Nonnatus, a figure associated with expectant mothers and childbirth....

Sanctuary of Sant Salvador

Felanitx, Balearic Islands, Spain

Above the town of Felanitx, on a 509-metre summit in Mallorca's Serra de Llevant, the Sanctuary of Sant Salvador has drawn pilgrims to its Marian image since a votive...