Physical form
Built sacred place
672 sacred places classified as built sacred place in Pilgrim Map. This category includes related, more specific forms.
Basilica of Our Lady of Marceille
Limoux, Aude, France
On a hilltop outside Limoux, a Gothic basilica guards one of France's most poignant Black Madonnas....
Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
A Neo-Byzantine basilica raised over the crypt of Saint Martin of Tours, whose act of cutting his cloak in half for a freezing beggar became the founding image of Western...
Basilica of Sainte-Therese of Lisieux
Lisieux, Normandy, France
No description available yet.
Basilica of Saints Nazarius and Celsus
Part of Carcassonne
Carcassonne, Aude, France
Within the fortified citadel of Carcassonne stands a basilica blessed by a pope who preached the Crusades....
Basilique Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais
Avranches, Avranches, Normandie (Manche), France
Its inclusion on Chemins du Mont-Saint-Michel (Chemin de Rouen) is supported by the reviewed route, religious, material history, and structured-documented entity...
Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Maximin
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Var), France
Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Maximin is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume,...
Bourges Cathedral
Bourges, Cher, France
Bourges Cathedral rises from one of the earliest Christian communities in Gaul, its five naves flowing without interruption toward the altar....
Cahors Cathedral
Lot, France
Cahors Cathedral rises over the old town of the Lot with two vast Romanesque domes, among the largest of the medieval West....
Cathedral of St. Julian, Le Mans
Le Mans, Sarthe, France
Before Le Mans was a racing city, it was a cathedral city. The Cathedral of Saint Julian possesses some of France's finest medieval stained glass—windows that have...
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen (Rouen Cathedral)
Rouen, Rouen, Normandie (Seine-Maritime), France
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen (Rouen Cathedral) is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Rouen, Rouen, Normandie (Seine-Maritime), France, not as a route label...
Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Puy
Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
On Mont Anis, where a sick woman once lay upon a dolmen and was healed by the Virgin's grace, one of Europe's oldest Marian sanctuaries rises in Romanesque splendor....
Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun
Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France
Built between 1120 and 1146 to shelter the relics of Lazarus of Bethany, Autun Cathedral carries one of the most concentrated programmes of Romanesque sculpture in Europe....
Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
Paris, Paris, France
The Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Médaille Miraculeuse stands at 140 rue du Bac in Paris, inside the motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity....
Chapel of Rochegude
Haute-Loire, France
Perched at around 960 metres above the Allier gorges, the small twelfth-century chapel of Saint-Jacques de Rochegude marks a dramatic threshold on the Via Podiensis, where...
Chapel of Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe
Haute-Loire, France
Set atop a sheer volcanic spire reached by 268 rock-cut steps, this small Romanesque chapel has drawn worship across millennia, from a prehistoric dolmen to a Roman cult...
Chapel of Saint-Salvayre
Alet-les-Bains, Aude, France
At the end of a rutted road climbing from Alet-les-Bains, a small chapel sits at the edge of sky and mountain....
Chapelle de Picpus in Paris
Paris, Paris, France
In a quiet corner of eastern Paris lies Picpus, where 1,306 victims of the Revolution's final weeks lie in mass graves....
Chapelle du Saint-Pilon
Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume, Var, France
At 994 meters atop the Sainte-Baume massif, a small stone chapel marks the legendary spot where angels lifted Mary Magdalene seven times daily for divine sustenance....
Chapelle Notre-Dame de Bonne Délivrance
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
In a quiet Neuilly street stands the chapel of the Sisters of Saint Thomas of Villeneuve, guardians of the Black Madonna of Paris....
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France
Chartres Cathedral rises from the wheat fields of France as medieval Christianity's most complete surviving statement....
Church of L’Hôpital-Saint-Blaise
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The sole survivor of a twelfth-century pilgrim hospital, this church on the Béarn–Basque border fuses Romanesque solidity with Hispano-Moorish artistry — pierced stone...
Church of Nasbinals
Lozère, France
On the high plateau of the Aubrac, the Romanesque church of Nasbinals offered pilgrims shelter before the most feared crossing on the Le Puy road....
Church of Notre-Dame, Dijon
Dijon, Côte-d’Or, France
Notre-Dame de Dijon is the church that contains the venerated image of Notre-Dame de Bon-Espoir....
Church of Our Lady of Good Repos
Montfavet, Vaucluse, France
In the village of Montfavet, outside Avignon, a Gothic church carries the name its cardinal founder chose in 1341: Notre-Dame de Bon Repos, Our Lady of Good Rest....
Church of Perse
Aveyron, France
On the approach to Espalion, the Romanesque church of Perse was a priory of the great Abbey of Conques, dedicated like its mother house to Sainte-Foy....
Church of Saint Faith of Bains
Haute-Loire, France
On the early stages of the Via Podiensis stands the church of Sainte-Foy at Bains, a twelfth-century Romanesque building of volcanic stone....
Church of Saint James, Moissac
Tarn-et-Garonne, France
The Church of Saint-Jacques is Moissac's parish dedicated to Saint James the Greater, the apostle whose shrine at Compostela is the Camino's destination....
Church of Saint John the Baptist of Ostabat
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Ostabat was one of medieval Europe's great Camino crossroads, where three of the four great French routes to Santiago converged before the final stage to...
Church of Saint Martin
Tarn-et-Garonne, France
The Church of Saint-Martin is reputedly among the oldest church sites in France, a Christian sanctuary built directly over the heated floors of a Gallo-Roman bathhouse....
Church of Saint Privat
Haute-Loire, France
In Saint-Christophe-sur-Dolaison, the first village-stage of the Via Podiensis after Le Puy, stands a twelfth-century Romanesque church of reddish volcanic stone....
Church of Saint Quiteria
Landes, France
On the hill of Le Mas above Aire-sur-l'Adour, this Romanesque church guards the tomb of Saint Quitterie and a carved 4th-century marble sarcophagus older than the building...
Church of Saint-Pierre of Bessuéjouls
Aveyron, France
Between Espalion and Estaing, the modest church of Saint-Pierre de Bessuéjouls keeps an extraordinary secret: a tiny Romanesque chapel raised in its bell tower and...
Church of St. Aignan, Chartres
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France
Hidden among the houses near Chartres' famous cathedral, the Church of St. Aignan represents something the cathedral cannot offer: intimacy....
Clairvaux Abbey
Ville-sous-la-Ferté, Grand Est, France
Clairvaux Abbey was founded in 1115 and became inseparable from Bernard of Clairvaux's Cistercian reform....
Collégiale Saint-Martin de Candes
Candes-Saint-Martin, Indre-et-Loire, France
A Gothic collegiate church in a Loire Valley village marks the exact spot where Martin of Tours, one of Western Christianity's most venerated saints, died in 397....
Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, La Romieu
Gers, France
The Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre rises over La Romieu, a Gascon village founded as a sheltered waystation on the road to Santiago....
Condom Cathedral
Gers, France
Condom Cathedral, the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, rises over the Gascon town above the Baïse river....
Éauze Cathedral
Gers, France
Saint-Luperc, the former cathedral of Éauze, stands on the site of Roman Elusa, a bishop's see since late antiquity....
Eglise Notre-Dame de Pontoise
Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France
Église Notre-Dame de Pontoise has drawn pilgrims since the thirteenth century, when word spread of a Virgin who could grant stillborn babies a moment of life for baptism....
Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Mer, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Notre-Dame-de-la-Mer in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is a fortified Romanesque church on the Camargue coast holding the relics of Mary Jacobe and Mary Salome, and, in its dark...
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Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Martigues
Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine stands in Martigues' canal-threaded Île quarter, a 17th-century Baroque parish church dedicated to Mary Magdalene and a waypoint on the...
La Madeleine (Church of Saint Mary Magdalene)
Paris, Paris, France
Fifty-two Corinthian columns surround a church that looks nothing like a church. No cross. No bell tower....
Lectoure Cathedral
Gers, France
Lectoure Cathedral, dedicated to the martyr brothers Gervasius and Protasius, crowns a hilltop town in the Gers....
Moulins Cathedral
Moulins, Allier, France
Moulins Cathedral is the episcopal and architectural setting for the Black Madonna of Moulins....
Notre-Dame des Malades
Vichy, Allier, France
In the heart of old Vichy, two churches share one roof. The 18th-century chapel holds what remains of a medieval Black Virgin—her head saved by an eleven-year-old during...
Notre-Dame-des-Pauvres Church, Aubrac
Aveyron, France
On the high, treeless Aubrac plateau stands Notre-Dame-des-Pauvres, the late-twelfth-century church of the medieval Dômerie d'Aubrac, a monastery-hospital founded to...
Our Lady of Le Puy Catholic Church, Figeac
Lot, France
On the hill above Figeac stands the town's oldest parish church, dedicated to Our Lady of Le Puy....
Saint-Geniez-d’Olt Church
Aveyron, France
In the Lot valley below the Aubrac, Saint-Geniez-d'Olt grew rich on cloth and built itself a substantial domed parish church in the southern Baroque-classical manner....
Saint-Médard Church, Saugues
Haute-Loire, France
At the heart of Saugues stands the former collegiate church of Saint-Médard, a convergence point on the Via Podiensis where pilgrims from Le Puy meet those arriving from...
Saint-Roch Chapel
Lozère, France
Standing alone at around 1,300 metres in the bleak Margeride, the Chapelle Saint-Roch marks the highest reaches and the Haute-Loire–Lozère threshold of the Le Puy route....
St. Cosmas' Church
Aveyron, France
In one of the Most Beautiful Villages of France, the church of Saint-Côme-et-Saint-Damien lifts a strange twisted 'flamed' spire above the rooftops....
The Abbey Church of the Holy Savior in Figeac
Lot, France
At the heart of medieval Figeac stands Saint-Sauveur, the surviving abbey church of a Benedictine, later Cluniac, monastery founded in 838 whose relics drew pilgrims for...
The Church of Saint Fleuret in Estaing
Aveyron, France
In the village of Estaing, reached across a UNESCO-listed Gothic bridge, the flamboyant church of Saint-Fleuret holds the relics of the village's patron, a bishop said to...
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Laghet
La Trinité, Alpes-Maritimes, France
High in the hills between Nice and Monaco, the Sanctuary of Notre-Dame de Laghet has drawn pilgrims since 1652, when spontaneous healings began occurring at a humble...
Alaverdi Cathedral
Akhmeta, Kakheti, Georgia
No description available yet.
Anchiskhati Basilica
Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
No description available yet.
Ateni Sioni Church
Ateni, Shida Kartli, Georgia
Ateni Sioni Church is a documented church in Ateni, Shida Kartli, Georgia, connected with Georgian Orthodox Christianity....
Barakoni Church
Tsesi, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Georgia
No description available yet.
Batumi Cathedral of the Mother of God
Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
Batumi Cathedral of the Mother of God is a documented cathedral in Batumi, Adjara, Georgia, connected with Georgian Orthodox Christianity....
Batumi Mosque
Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
Batumi Mosque is a documented mosque in Batumi, Adjara, Georgia, connected with Islam....