Sacred journeys
Pilgrimages
Routes that gather many sites into one journey. Circuits of temples, mountain ascents, long roads walked across centuries. 29 pilgrimages on Pilgrim Map.
China
Egypt
France
Christianity · Auvergne to the Pyrenees · France
Camino de Santiago — Via Podiensis
Voie du Puy / GR 65
The Le Puy road to Santiago — France's great pilgrim way over the Aubrac to the Pyrenees.
38 of 38 stations published
Christianity · Provence · France
Chemin de Marie-Madeleine
Chemin de Marie-Madeleine
A Provençal devotional route between the shore where Mary Magdalene is said to have landed and the cave where she is said to have died.
5 of 5 stations published
Hungary, France
India
Hinduism · Uttarakhand (Garhwal Himalaya) · India
Char Dham Yatra (Uttarakhand)
छोटा चार धाम / उत्तराखंड चार धाम यात्रा
Four Himalayan shrines to two river-goddesses, Shiva, and Vishnu, opened only when the mountains allow it.
4 of 4 stations published
Hinduism · Uttarakhand (Garhwal Himalayas) · India
Panch Kedar
पञ्च केदार
Five Himalayan temples to Shiva, each holding one part of a scattered, reassembled god.
5 of 5 stations published
Hinduism · Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu · India
Twelve Jyotirlingas
द्वादश ज्योतिर्लिंग (Dwadasha Jyotirlinga)
Twelve self-manifested lingams of light, scattered the length of India, each a complete pilgrimage in itself.
12 of 12 stations published
Ireland
Italy
Christianity · Umbria/Lazio · Italy
Cammino di San Benedetto
Cammino di San Benedetto
A modern trail linking the birthplace, hermit cave, and mother abbey of the founder of Western monasticism.
7 of 7 stations published
Christianity · Piedmont and Lombardy · Italy
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
Sacri Monti
Nine sacred mountains of chapels built as an alternative Holy Land when the real one grew hard to reach.
9 of 9 stations published
Japan
Buddhism · Kantō · Japan
Bandō Sanjūsankasho Pilgrimage
坂東三十三観音霊場
Thirty-three temples to Kannon across the eastern plain, a circuit of compassion shaped by twelfth-century warriors and walked still.
33 of 33 stations published
Buddhism · Kantō · Japan
Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage
秩父三十四観音霊場
Thirty-four temples in a single Saitama valley — the third leg that makes the Hyakkasho complete.
34 of 34 stations published
Buddhism · Chūgoku · Japan
Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage
中国三十三観音霊場
A modern Kannon circuit across western Honshu, established in 1981 to honor temples that lay outside the great medieval routes.
29 of 33 stations published
Shinto · Wakayama Prefecture, Kii Peninsula · Japan
Kumano Sanzan
熊野三山
Three grand shrines linked by mountain paths through the Kii Peninsula, where deities are said to have first descended to earth.
3 of 3 stations published
Buddhism · Kansai · Japan
New Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage
新西国三十三所
A modern Kansai Kannon circuit organized in 1932 to make the old route walkable for working pilgrims.
38 of 33 stations published
Buddhism · Kansai · Japan
Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage
西国三十三所
The oldest Kannon circuit in Japan — thirty-three temples across western Honshu, walked since the eighth century.
36 of 33 stations published
Buddhism · Shikoku · Japan
Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage
四国八十八ヶ所霊場
Eighty-eight temples around an island, a circuit walked beside Kūkai across thirteen centuries.
88 of 88 stations published
Kosovo
Mexico
Peru
Portugal
Portugal, Spain
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Turkey
Christianity · Aegean and western Anatolia (ancient Roman Asia) · Turkey
Seven Churches of Revelation
Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰωάννου — αἱ ἑπτὰ ἐκκλησίαι
Seven first-century congregations addressed by name in the Book of Revelation, each given a specific commendation or rebuke.
9 of 7 stations published
Christianity · Antalya & Isparta Provinces (ancient Pamphylia and Pisidia) · Turkey
St Paul Trail
Aziz Paul Yolu
A modern waymarked trail through the Taurus Mountains, following where Paul's first mission is believed to have passed.
7 of 7 stations published
