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Church
495 sacred places classified as church in Pilgrim Map. This form sits within christian worship place.
Peñafrancia Basilica
Naga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines
Rising in Naga City at the heart of the Bicol region, Peñafrancia Basilica enshrines the miraculous image of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, lovingly called Ina (Mother) by...
San Agustin Church
Intramuros, Manila, Intramuros, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Vigan Cathedral (St. Paul Metropolitan Cathedral)
Vigan City, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Philippines
Vigan Cathedral (St. Paul Metropolitan Cathedral) is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Vigan City, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Philippines, not as a route label...
Basilica da Estrela
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Queen Maria I vowed in 1760 to build a church if granted a son to secure the throne....
Braga Cathedral
Braga, Braga, Portugal
Consecrated in 1089, Braga Cathedral is Portugal's oldest cathedral and the seat of the country's Archbishop-Primate....
Church of Bom Jesus da Cruz
Barcelos, Braga, Portugal
In December 1504, a black cross reportedly appeared in the earth of Barcelos's fairground, spreading until it formed a shape that, according to local memory, no shovel...
Church of Nossa Senhora da Agonia
Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Built to house an image installed in 1674, the Church of Nossa Senhora da Agonia grew from a small chapel dedicated to fishermen's fear of shipwreck into the anchor of one...
Church of Saint Anthony of Lisbon
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Beside Lisbon's cathedral, this Baroque-Rococo church stands where centuries of local and ecclesiastical tradition place the 1195 birth of Fernando de Bulhões — later...
Church of Santa Maria de Marvila
Santarém, Santarém, Portugal
Behind a restrained Manueline doorway in Santarém's old town, Santa Maria de Marvila hides an interior almost entirely resurfaced in seventeenth-century azulejo tile — a...
Church of Santa Maria do Olival
Tomar, Santarém, Portugal
Founded by Gualdim Pais, the Templar master who established Tomar itself, Santa Maria do Olival served as the Order's spiritual seat and burial pantheon in Portugal....
Church of Santa Maria Madalena da Falperra
Braga, Braga, Portugal
On a ridge above Braga, a granite Baroque facade rises where a medieval chapel once stood — rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake into one of André Soares's most celebrated...
Church of São Bento da Vitória
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Built from 1604 by the Portuguese Benedictine Congregation on the site of Porto's former Jewish quarter, São Bento da Vitória remains a consecrated church known for its...
Church of São João Baptista, Tomar
Tomar, Santarém, Portugal
Facing the statue of the Templar founder of Tomar across the Praça da República, the Church of São João Baptista has served as the town's Igreja Matriz since the fifteenth...
Church of São Pedro de Rates
Póvoa de Varzim, Porto, Portugal
São Pedro de Rates marks the point where the Coastal and Central routes of the Camino Português converge before continuing toward Barcelos and Santiago de Compostela....
Church of São Roque
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Founded in 1506 as a plague-relief shrine and built from 1553 as the first Jesuit church in the Portuguese world, São Roque hides its Baroque wealth behind a deliberately...
Church of the Holy Miracle of Santarém
Santarém, Santarém, Portugal
In the historic center of Santarém, a small Gothic-to-Renaissance church — now the Santuário do Santíssimo Milagre, formerly the parish church of Santo Estêvão — houses a...
Coimbra New Cathedral
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Built in the late 16th and 17th centuries as the church of a Jesuit college training missionaries for Portugal's colonial territories, this building became the seat of the...
Coimbra Old Cathedral
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
The Sé Velha is the only Portuguese Romanesque cathedral from the Reconquista era to survive largely intact....
Évora Cathedral
Évora, Évora, Portugal
A granite fortress-church raised after the 1166 reconquest of Évora, the Sé has served as the seat of its archdiocese for more than eight centuries....
Faro Cathedral
Faro, Faro, Portugal
Faro Cathedral stands on ground used for worship across more than two millennia — a Roman temple, an early Christian basilica, a mosque during Moorish rule, and since the...
Guarda Cathedral
Guarda, Guarda, Portugal
Guarda Cathedral rose over roughly a century and a half, beginning in 1390, on the site of the diocesan seat transferred here in 1199 when King Sancho I founded Guarda as...
Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pópulo, Caldas da Rainha
Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal
No description available yet.
Igreja de Santiago de Palmela
Palmela, Setúbal, Portugal
Built from 1443 as the conventual church and headquarters of the Order of Santiago de Espada inside Palmela Castle, this austere late-Gothic building served the Portuguese...
Igreja de São Vicente de Fora
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Founded around 1147 on the ground where crusader forces camped during the siege that took Lisbon from Moorish rule, São Vicente de Fora holds the relics of the city's...
Igreja Matriz de Caminha
Caminha, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Built between 1488 and 1556 behind Caminha's medieval walls, this granite parish church combines a fortress-like Gothic exterior with an intricately carved Mudéjar ceiling...
Lamego Cathedral
Lamego, Viseu, Portugal
Lamego Cathedral layers a Romanesque south tower, a Manueline triple-portico front, a 1524 Mannerist cloister, and an eighteenth-century Baroque interior painted by...
Lisbon Cathedral
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Since 1147, this fortress-faced cathedral above the Tagus has held the daily rhythm of Mass, sacrament, and civic devotion as the seat of the Patriarchate of Lisbon....
Matriz Church of Ponte de Lima
Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Ponte de Lima's matriz church stands on the site of a 12th-13th century Romanesque predecessor that, by the town's own 1444 testimony, had grown too small for its...
National Pantheon, Church of Santa Engrácia
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Begun in 1681 to house the relics of a virgin martyr, the Church of Santa Engrácia took nearly three centuries to complete — so long that Lisbon still calls any endless...
Porto Cathedral
Porto, Porto, Portugal
The Sé do Porto has held the seat of the Bishop of Porto for nine centuries, its thick Romanesque walls and twin towers built as much for defense as for devotion....
Viseu Cathedral
Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
Viseu Cathedral rises on the site of an Early Christian basilica destroyed under Moorish rule and rebuilt after the 1058 reconquest....
Basilica of Our Lady of Altagracia, Higuey
Higüey, La Altagracia, República Dominicana
No description available yet.
Santuario Nacional Santo Cristo de los Milagros,Bayaguana
Bayaguana, Monte Plata, República Dominicana
No description available yet.
Leud Hill Church, Romania
Ieud, Maramureș, Romania
Ieud Hill Church rises from a prominent hilltop in Maramures, northwestern Romania, its wooden silhouette visible across the valley....
Maxton Kirk (Maxton Parish Church)
Maxton, Maxton, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
Maxton Kirk (Maxton Parish Church) is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Maxton, Maxton, Scottish Borders, Scotland, not as a route label or nearby point of...
Basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Marian Hill in Levoča, Slovakia
Levoča, Prešov, Slovakia
Each July, over half a million pilgrims climb Marianska Hora to the Basilica of the Visitation outside Levoca, Slovakia....
Marianka Pilgrimage Shrine
Marianka, Marianka, Bratislava Region, Slovakia
Marianka Pilgrimage Shrine is a documented shrine in Marianka, Slovakia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Church of the Apparition of Mary at Strunjan
Strunjan, Strunjan, Piran Municipality / Coastal-Karst, Slovenia
Church of the Apparition of Mary at Strunjan is a documented church in Strunjan, Slovenia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Lutina, Basilica of the Assumption of Mary
Ľutina, Prešovský kraj, Slovensko
No description available yet.
Jeonju Jeondong Cathedral
Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
Jeondong Cathedral stands near the place where Paul Yun Ji-chung and James Kwon Sang-yeon were executed in 1791....
Myeongdong Cathedral
Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Myeongdong Cathedral is not only a Gothic landmark above a shopping district. Its official history locates Korea’s first faith community here in 1784, before the current...
Astorga Cathedral (Catedral de Santa María)
Astorga, Astorga, Castilla y León (León), Spain
The record concerns a living church and pilgrimage site within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Ávila Cathedral
Ávila, Ávila, Spain
Ávila Cathedral rises where devotion and defense were never separate acts. Its granite apse, the cimorro, is built directly into the medieval city wall as one of its...
Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Encina, Ponferrada
Ponferrada, Ponferrada, Castilla y León (León), Spain
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Zaragoza)
Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Catholic tradition places the Virgin Mary's first apparition on 2 January AD 40 — while she was still living in Jerusalem — to the apostle James the Greater on the banks...
Basilica of Begoña
Bilbao, Biscay, Spain
On a hill above Bilbao's Old Town, the Basilica of Begoña has been the spiritual home of the Basque people since the medieval era....
Basilica of Saint Teresa, Alba de Tormes
Alba de Tormes, Salamanca, Spain
In the center of Alba de Tormes, two adjoining buildings tell one story split across three centuries....
Basilica of San Isidoro
León, León, Spain
On the edge of León's old town, this Romanesque church holds the relics of Saint Isidore of Seville alongside the tombs of eleven kings and twelve queens of León....
Basilica of San Vicente, Ávila
Ávila, Ávila, Spain
Just outside Ávila's medieval walls, the Basilica of San Vicente rises over the traditional site where three sibling martyrs, Vicente, Sabina, and Cristeta, were killed...
Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
A soaring Catalan Gothic basilica in Barcelona's Born district, built between 1329 and 1384 not by nobility but by the sailors, fishermen, and bastaixos dockworkers of the...
Basilica of Santa María, Elche
Elche, Alicante, Spain
The Basilica of Santa María in Elche, southeastern Spain, is the home of the Misteri d'Elx — a fully sung medieval liturgical drama on the Assumption of the Virgin,...
Bilbao Cathedral (Catedral de Santiago)
Bilbao, Bilbao, Basque Country (Bizkaia), Spain
The record concerns a living church and pilgrimage site within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Cathedral of Lugo
Lugo, Lugo, Spain
Lugo Cathedral has kept the consecrated Host exposed on its altar, day and night, without interruption, for longer than anyone can fully document....
Cathedral of Menorca
Ciutadella de Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
The Cathedral of Menorca stands in the old town of Ciutadella, its Catalan Gothic nave begun in 1300 on the site of the city's principal mosque....
Cathedral of Murcia
Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Seat of the Diocese of Cartagena since 1291, the Cathedral of Murcia rises on the foundations of the city's former Great Mosque and holds, beneath its main altar, the...
Cathedral of Santa Maria of Ibiza
Eivissa, Balearic Islands, Spain
The Cathedral of Santa Maria of Ibiza stands at the highest point of Dalt Vila, Ibiza's fortified old town....
Church of El Pilar de la Mola
El Pilar de la Mola, Formentera, El Pilar de la Mola, Formentera, Spain
No description available yet.
Church of Saint Mary of Eunate
Muruzábal, Navarre, Spain
Off a quiet detour from the Camino Francés near Muruzábal, Eunate stands by itself in open farmland: an octagonal Romanesque church wrapped in a gallery of thirty-three...
Church of San Miguel de Lillo
Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Consecrated in 848 by King Ramiro I and his wife Paterna as the chapel of their Monte Naranco palace complex, San Miguel de Lillo survives today only as its western third...
Church of Sant Antoni de Portmany
Sant Antoni de Portmany, Balearic Islands, Spain
Overlooking the harbor at the heart of Sant Antoni de Portmany, this fortified parish church has stood since the early 14th century, when the Archbishop of Tarragona...