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Notre-Dame des Malades
Vichy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 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...
The Parish Church of the Assumption (Maria am Berg), Hallstatt
Hallstatt, Oberösterreich, Austria
Perched on a steep mountainside above Lake Hallstatt, the Parish Church of the Assumption rises like a declaration of permanence against the transient Alpine weather....
La Madeleine (Church of Saint Mary Magdalene)
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Fifty-two Corinthian columns surround a church that looks nothing like a church. No cross. No bell tower....
Church of St. Catherine with Black virgin of Brussel
Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium
In the heart of Brussels' former harbor district, the Church of St. Catherine shelters one of Belgium's most revered Black Madonnas....
Kirkkokari Island (St. Henry’s Island)
Säkylä, Satakunta, Finland
A small island in southwestern Finland marks the site where Bishop Henry was martyred in 1156, an event that tradition holds as the beginning of Finnish Christianity....
Church of St. George, Georgenberg
Stans, Tirol, Austria
Perched on a rocky outcrop rising one hundred meters above the Stallental valley in the Austrian Alps, St. Georgenberg is the oldest extant monastery in Tyrol....
Le Puy
Le Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Two million years ago, underwater volcanoes created a needle of stone rising 82 meters from the valley floor. Prehistoric peoples built a dolmen on its summit....
Beverley Minster
Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Rising from the market town of Beverley in East Yorkshire, this Gothic minster has witnessed over 1,300 years of continuous worship since St John of Beverley founded a...
St. Mary’s Church, Haddington, Scotland
Haddington, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
Known as the Lamp of Lothian, St Mary's has held worship since the twelfth century....
St. Katharina, Langenzersdorf
Langenzersdorf, Lower Austria, Austria
Rising in the village of Langenzersdorf just north of Vienna, St. Katharina has anchored the spiritual life of this community since 1326....
Church of St. Mary of Blachernae (Ayın Biri Kilisesi), Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
At the edge of Istanbul's Byzantine walls, a small church marks one of Christianity's most storied Marian shrines....
Kapel in 't Zand Church, Roermond, Netherlands
Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
Rising from the sandy lowlands outside Roermond, the Kapel in 't Zand has drawn pilgrims to venerate Our Lady in the Sand since 1418....
Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Istanbul
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Rising in red brick along Istanbul's busiest avenue, the Church of Saint Anthony of Padua has served the city's Catholic community since 1725....
Church of Guadalupe, San Cristobal
San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico
Rising above San Cristobal de las Casas on Cerro de Guadalupe, this 19th-century church draws devotees who climb its 79 stone steps to honor Mexico's most beloved sacred...
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas
Congonhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
On a hillside in Minas Gerais, twelve prophets in soapstone look down from their staircase, scrolls unfurled, announcing what the chapels below depict: Christ's Passion,...
Church of Our Lady of the Recollects
Verviers, Liège, Belgium
The Church of Our Lady of the Recollects in Verviers guards one of Belgium's most venerated Black Virgins....
Church of St. Nicholas of Outremeuse (Black Virgin)
Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
In the heart of Outremeuse, an island neighborhood of Liege, a life-size Black Virgin has been venerated for nearly five centuries....
Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
ላሊበላ / Lalibela, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
In the Ethiopian highlands, eleven churches descend into volcanic rock rather than rise above it....
St John's Church
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
On Glastonbury's High Street stands a church where prayers have risen for eight centuries. St....
Church of Our Lady of Good Repos
Montfavet, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 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....
Shrine of Our Lady of Candelaria
Puno, Puno, Peru
Each February, the shores of Lake Titicaca transform. The Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria draws 50,000 dancers and 15,000 musicians to Puno in a celebration UNESCO...
San Nicola in Carcere, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
San Nicola in Carcere preserves Rome's sacred stratigraphy in visible form. A medieval church literally incorporates the columns and foundations of three Roman Republican...
Church of Our Miraculous Lady, Sarkani
Lendžu pagasts, Latvia
In a quiet rural parish near Rezekne in eastern Latvia, Sarkani Church holds a painting of the Virgin Mary long revered as miraculous and credited with healing grace....
Church of St. Stanislaus, Berzoras
Beržoras, Telšiai County, Lithuania
Between two lakes in Žemaitija National Park stands one of Lithuania's oldest wooden churches, built where a miraculous painting of the Virgin Mary repeatedly returned to...
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...
Church of Panagia Chrisopigi, Sifnos Island
Φάρος, Aegean, Greece
Panagia Chrysopigi sits on a rocky islet off the southern coast of Sifnos, connected to the island by a slender bridge....
St. Andrew’s Church, Bishopstone, England
Seaford, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the Sussex Downs where Christians have worshipped since the seventh or eighth century, St Andrew's Church preserves some of England's most remarkable...
Church of the Virgin of the Poor, Banneux
Sprimont, Liège, Belgium
Banneux is a small woodland Marian shrine in the Ardennes of Wallonia where the Virgin appeared eight times to eleven-year-old Mariette Beco between 15 January and 2 March...
Church of Saint George, Cairo
Mit Damsis wa Kafr Abu Girg, Ad Dakahliya, Egypt
The Church of Saint George in Old Cairo rises from the foundations of a Roman tower, its circular form rare in the Christian world....
Church of the Transfiguration Mount Tabor
Shibli - Umm el Ghanam, North District, Israel
At the summit of Mount Tabor, the Franciscan Basilica of the Transfiguration stands over nearly two millennia of Christian worship....
Church of Pasiene
Pasienes pagasts, Latvia
In far-eastern Latgale, near the Russian frontier, the Church of St Dominic at Pasiene stands as one of the finest late-Baroque sacred buildings in the region....
Chiesa di Nostra Signora di Tergu
Zelgu/Tergu, Sardinia, Italy
In the Sardinian countryside south of Castelsardo, a church of wine-red trachyte and white limestone has stood for nearly a thousand years....
Church of St. Aignan, Chartres
Chartres, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Hidden among the houses near Chartres' famous cathedral, the Church of St. Aignan represents something the cathedral cannot offer: intimacy....
Church of Our Lady with the Golden Heart, Beauraing
Beauraing, Namur, Belgium
Beauraing is one of two Church-approved Marian apparition sites in Belgium. Between November 1932 and January 1933, five children of the Voisin and Degeimbre families...
Church of St Frideswide, Oxford, England
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
In the Latin Chapel of Christ Church Cathedral, fragments of stone reassembled after 400 years form the reconstructed shrine of St Frideswide, the woman who founded...
Bom Jesus da Lapa, Santuário do Bom Jesus da Lapa
Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil
Inside a limestone hill on the banks of the São Francisco River, natural caves have held Catholic worship for over three centuries....
The parish church of the Assumption (Maria am Berg), Hallstatt
Hallstatt, Upper Austria, Austria
High above Lake Hallstatt, the parish church of Maria am Berg sits between mountain and water in one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited settlements. Beside it, St....
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Alksnenai
Stirnėnai, Marijampolė County, Lithuania
In the Suvalkija countryside, the wooden Church of the Assumption in Alksnėnai shelters a miraculous crowned statue of the Virgin Mary and a collection of 18th-century...
Ikšķile Church, St Meinhard’s Island, Ikskile
Ikšķile, Latvia
On a small island in the Daugava reservoir southeast of Riga stand the conserved ruins of the oldest stone church in Latvia, raised under Bishop Meinhard around 1184....
Esquipulas
Esquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala
The Basilica of the Black Christ stands in a green Guatemalan valley near the Honduran border, holding a small dark wooden Christ carved by Quirio Cataño in 1594....
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Pivasiunai
Pivašiūnai, Alytus County, Lithuania
Perched on a hill surrounded by ancient pines and birches, the Church of the Assumption in Pivašiūnai shelters a miraculous 17th-century painting crowned with papal crowns...
Arani, Church of San Bartolomé, Nuestra Señora La Bella
Municipio Arani, Cochabamba, Bolivia
In the Valle Alto of Cochabamba, where wind sweeps across fields of wheat and the scent of baking bread fills the streets, the Church of San Bartolomé has stood since 1610....
Church of St. Mary and St. Edwin, Evesham, England
Wychavon, England, United Kingdom
In the center of Evesham, a Gothic Revival church carries forward a devotion that Henry VIII tried to end....
Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Siluva
Šiluva, Kaunas County, Lithuania
The Basilica of the Nativity holds the crowned miraculous painting of Our Lady of Šiluva — called 'Lithuania's greatest treasure.' Brought from Rome in 1457, lost during...
Gates of Dawn, Vilniaus
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Of the nine gates that once guarded Vilnius, only one survives. The Gates of Dawn stands because the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Mercy in its chapel above made...
St. Mary Church, Temple Guitling
Cotswold District, England, United Kingdom
Founded around 1170 by the Knights Templar, St. Mary's Church stands at the edge of Temple Guiting, overlooking the Windrush Valley....
Iglesia de La Tirana
Pozo Almonte, Tarapacа Region, Chile
In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, a village of eight hundred swells to a quarter million every July as pilgrims converge on the Santuario de La Tirana....
St Nonna’s Church, Altarnun
Altarnun, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the edge of Bodmin Moor, St Nonna's Church has anchored nearly fifteen centuries of Christian worship on the site where a Welsh saint established her altar....
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....
Church of the Virgin Mary Victorious, Kazokiskes
Kazokiškės, Vilnius County, Lithuania
In the quiet Lithuanian countryside southeast of Vilnius, a late Baroque church holds a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary Victorious that has drawn pilgrims since the...
Church of Saint John the Baptist in Podmilačje
Jajce, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
On the banks of the Vrbas River in central Bosnia, the Church of Saint John the Baptist at Podmilačje has drawn pilgrims for over six hundred years....
St Peter's Church, Ovington
Ovington, Ovington, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Peter's Church stands in the Itchen Valley village of Ovington as a functioning parish church and waymark on the ancient Pilgrim's Way from Winchester to Canterbury....
The Church of Saint Fleuret in Estaing
Estaing, 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...
Chiesa di San Domenico
Rieti, Lazio, Italy
In 1229, four women wishing to live as Franciscan nuns received the house of blessed Angelo Tancredi, one of Saint Francis's earliest companions, in the city of Rieti....
Church of Santa Maria do Olival
Tomar, Tomar, Santarém / Centro, 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....
Wrotham
Wrotham, Kent, United Kingdom
St George's Church stands on a downland slope in Wrotham, its Norman core and soaring 15th-century tower marking a waypoint on the Pilgrims' Way....
Church of Santa Maria de Marvila
Santarém, Santarém, Santarém / Alentejo-Centro transition, 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 Saint James, Moissac
Moissac, Occitania, 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 Privat
Saint-Privat-d’Allier, 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....
St Bartholomew's Church, Winchester
Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Bartholomew's is the sole surviving structure of Hyde Abbey, the Benedictine monastery where King Alfred the Great was buried in 1110....
Igreja Matriz de Caminha
Caminha, Caminha, 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...
St Mary's Church, Chilham
Chilham, Chilham, Kent, United Kingdom
St Mary's Church stands at the heart of Chilham village, a medieval waypoint on the Pilgrim's Way just 11.5 kilometres from Canterbury Cathedral....
Sanctuary of Las Lajas
Nariño, Nariño, Colombia
In a jungle canyon near the Ecuador border, a neo-Gothic basilica rises one hundred meters above the Guaitara River, its foundations a bridge spanning the gorge....
Igreja de São Vicente de Fora
Lisbon, Lisbon, Lisbon / Lisboa Region, 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...
Sveta Bogoroditsa Church
Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Sveta Bogoroditsa stands in central Plovdiv as the city's principal Orthodox cathedral, an active place of worship on a site where Christians have gathered since the ninth...
Saint-Geniez-d’Olt Church
Geniez d'Olt et d'Aubrac, 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....
Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church (Abu Serga)
Old Cairo, Old Cairo (Coptic Cairo), Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Abu Serga is a Coptic Orthodox church in Old Cairo built atop the Roman fortress of Babylon, its exact founding date disputed between a 4th-5th century popular tradition...
St Swithun's Church
Headbourne Worthy, Martyr Worthy/near Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Swithun's Church at Headbourne Worthy stands just outside Winchester on the ancient Pilgrim's Way, a small Saxon church built in deliberate dedication to the city's...
St Peter & St Paul's Church, Charing
Charing, Charing, Kent, United Kingdom
St Peter & St Paul's Church in Charing has served as the final major overnight halt on the Pilgrim's Way since the medieval period....
Church of Sant Antoni de Portmany
Sant Antoni de Portmany, Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, 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...
St Mary the Virgin Church, Thurnham
Thurnham, Thurnham, Kent, United Kingdom
Set in a quiet Kentish lane, St Mary the Virgin is a Norman flint church whose churchyard the Pilgrim's Way literally passes through....
Church of Perse
Espalion, 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....
St Mary's Church, Bentley
Bentley, Bentley, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Mary's Church in Bentley stands on the ancient east-west trackway that became the Pilgrim's Way from Winchester to Canterbury....
Our Lady of Le Puy Catholic Church, Figeac
Figeac, Occitania, France
On the hill above Figeac stands the town's oldest parish church, dedicated to Our Lady of Le Puy....
The Abbey Church of the Holy Savior in Figeac
Figeac, Occitania, 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...
St Martha-on-the-Hill
Guildford, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
St Martha-on-the-Hill is an active Church of England parish church perched 573 feet above the Surrey countryside, reachable only on foot....
Ex-Collegiate Church of Santa María del Manzano
Castrojeriz, Castrojeriz, Burgos, Castile and León, Spain
Beneath Castrojeriz's hilltop castle, this ex-collegiate church holds a 13th-century Gothic Virgin whose name recalls a founding legend of discovery in an apple tree....
St Nicholas Church, Thanington
Thanington, Thanington, Kent, United Kingdom
A Norman flint church on the southwest fringe of Canterbury, St Nicholas Thanington has stood beside the pilgrim road for nearly nine hundred years....
Church of Saint John the Baptist of Ostabat
Ostabat-Asme, 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...
Basilica da Estrela
Lisbon, Lisbon, Lisbon / Lisboa Region, Portugal
Queen Maria I vowed in 1760 to build a church if granted a son to secure the throne....
St George the Martyr Church, Borough
London, Southwark, Greater London, United Kingdom
Standing at the exact junction where medieval London gave way to the road to Canterbury, St George the Martyr has served as a gateway church for nine centuries....
Church of Santa María del Naranco
Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Commissioned around 842 by King Ramiro I of Asturias as the ceremonial hall of his hillside palace, this two-story loggia building later became a Catholic church dedicated...
Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá
Boyacá, Boyacá, Colombia
The Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá holds the painting of Colombia's patroness: a cotton canvas image of the Virgin Mary that deteriorated beyond...
St Michael & All Angels Church, Harbledown
Harbledown, Harbledown, Kent, United Kingdom
Standing on the last ridge before Canterbury, St Michael & All Angels has marked the threshold of the great pilgrimage since Norman times....
St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury
Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
St Dunstan's stands just outside Canterbury's medieval West Gate — the last church a pilgrim passed before entering the city....
St Botolph's Church, Chevening
Chevening, Chevening, Kent, United Kingdom
St Botolph's stands on the North Downs ridge where the Pilgrim's Way has wound since before Christianity....
Church of Nossa Senhora da Agonia
Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo / Norte, 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 San Miguel de Lillo
Oviedo, 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...
St Nicholas Church, Bishop's Sutton
Bishop's Sutton, Bishop's Sutton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Nicholas Church in Bishop's Sutton is a Grade I listed Norman church built c.1150 by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester....
St John's Church
Itchen Abbas, Itchen Abbas/near Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St John the Baptist in Itchen Abbas has stood beside the River Itchen since the Norman period, its twelfth-century chancel arch still intact within a Victorian shell....
St Mary's Church
Easton, Easton/near Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Mary's Church in Easton is a Grade I listed Norman parish church built around 1200, set in the chalk-stream valley of the Itchen two and three-quarter miles from...
St Martin's Church, Detling
Detling, Detling, Kent, United Kingdom
St Martin's Church stands at the heart of Detling village on the North Downs of Kent, directly on the ancient trackway that medieval pilgrims walked toward Canterbury....
Church of Saint Martin
Moissac, Occitania, 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....
Notre-Dame-des-Pauvres Church, Aubrac
Aumont-Aubrac, 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...
National Pantheon, Church of Santa Engrácia
Lisbon, Lisbon, Lisbon / Lisboa Region, 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...
Santa Maria Assunta, Assergi
Assergi, Abruzzo, Italy
At the base of Gran Sasso, Assergi's parish church conceals a secret beneath its modest Romanesque facade....
Church of São João Baptista, Tomar
Tomar, Tomar, Santarém / Centro, 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...
St John the Baptist Church, Puttenham
Puttenham, Puttenham, Surrey, United Kingdom
St John the Baptist Church in Puttenham has stood beside the medieval Pilgrim's Way since the twelfth century....
Church of Saint Anthony of Lisbon
Lisbon, Lisbon, Lisbon / Lisboa Region, 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 the Holy Miracle of Santarém
Santarém, Santarém, Santarém / Alentejo-Centro transition, 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...
St John the Baptist Church, Harrietsham
Harrietsham, Harrietsham, Kent, United Kingdom
St John the Baptist Church has stood at the edge of the Pilgrim's Way corridor in the Kent North Downs since at least the Norman Conquest....
Eglise Notre-Dame de Pontoise
Pontoise, Île-de-France, 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....
Convent of Saint Teresa, Ávila
Ávila, Ávila, Castile and León, Spain
A 17th-century Baroque church and convent raised over the room where Teresa of Ávila was born in 1515, now an active Discalced Carmelite site holding her relics in a crypt...
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Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Martigues
Martigues, Martigues, Provence, 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...
St Mary's and All Saints Church, Boxley
Boxley, Boxley, Kent, United Kingdom
St Mary's and All Saints stands at the foot of the North Downs in Boxley village, a few hundred metres from the ancient Pilgrim's Way....
Church of Bom Jesus da Cruz
Barcelos, Barcelos, Braga / Norte, 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...
St Lawrence the Martyr Church, Godmersham
Godmersham, Godmersham, Kent, United Kingdom
St Lawrence the Martyr Church stands in the Stour Valley on the ancient Pilgrim's Way between Winchester and Canterbury....
Church of São Bento da Vitória
Porto, Porto, Porto / Norte, 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...
Saint-Médard Church, Saugues
Saugues, 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...
St Nicholas Church, Chawton
Chawton, Chawton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Nicholas Church, Chawton has served this Hampshire village since at least 1270, rebuilt in Victorian Gothic after a fire but retaining its medieval chancel....
San Giovanni Battista
Cervo, Liguria, 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...
St Bartholomew's Church, Otford
Otford, Otford, Kent, United Kingdom
St Bartholomew's stands at the heart of Otford village, where the Winchester and London arms of the Pilgrim's Way converge....
Church of St Martha-on-the-Hill
Chilworth, St Martha, Surrey, United Kingdom
St Martha-on-the-Hill is an active Anglican church at the summit of a 574-foot Surrey hilltop, standing where pilgrims have paused since the Norman era. Foot access only....
Church of Saint Quiteria
Aire-sur-l'Adour, 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...
St. Cosmas' Church
Saint-Côme-d'Olt, 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....
Chiesa di San Pietro della Ienca
San Pietro della Ienca, Abruzzo, Italy
On the slopes of the Gran Sasso, a small Romanesque church stands in a hamlet that time nearly forgot....
St Mary's Church, Patrixbourne
Patrixbourne, Patrixbourne, Kent, United Kingdom
Standing four miles southeast of Canterbury, St Mary's Patrixbourne is one of the finest Norman parish churches in southeast England....
St Peter's Church, Ropley
Ropley, Ropley, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Peter's Church stands on a hilltop mound above Ropley village, its Norman origins visible beneath a Victorian skin and a hard-won modern restoration....
Church of Santa Maria Madalena da Falperra
Braga, Braga, Braga / Norte, 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 Roque
Lisbon, Lisbon, Lisbon / Lisboa Region, 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...
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