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Christianity sanctuary sacred sites
Explore Christianity sanctuary sacred sites across countries, regions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes.
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The Sanctuary of the Peña de Francia
El Cabaco, Castile and León, Spain
Rising to 1,723 meters in the Sierra de Francia, this Dominican sanctuary guards a Black Madonna hidden for six centuries during Muslim rule....
Santuario di N.S. di Oropa, Italy
Biella, Piedmont, Italy
Oropa rises in the Biellese Alps at 1,159 meters, the largest Marian sanctuary in the Alpine world....
Monte Gargano
Monte Sant'Angelo, Apulia, Italy
On the Gargano promontory, a cave has drawn pilgrims since 490 CE, when Saint Michael first appeared to a local bishop....
Cotoca, Santuario de la Virgen de Cotoca
Cotoca, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Bolivia's most beloved Marian pilgrimage rises from the central plaza of Cotoca, a small town east of Santa Cruz de la Sierra....
Santuario Virgen de la Esperanza
Calasparra, Region of Murcia, Spain
Six kilometers from Calasparra in Spain's Murcia region, a natural cave on the banks of the Segura River holds the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Hope....
Castelpetroso
Castelpetroso, Molise, Italy
Castelpetroso is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Isernia in the Italian region Molise, located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Campobasso and about 10...
La Verna
Chiusi della Verna, Tuscany, Italy
La Verna (Latin: Alverna) is a locality on Mount Penna (Italian: Monte Penna), an isolated mountain of 1,283 metres (4,209 ft) situated in the centre of the Tuscan...
Santuario francescano di Fontecolombo
Fontecolombo, Lazio, Italia
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...
Santuario di Nostra Signora di Gonare
Orani, Sardegna, Italia
At 1,100 metres above sea level, the Santuario di Nostra Signora di Gonare is the highest church in Sardinia....
Santuario di San Pio da Pietrelcina
San Giovanni Rotondo, Apulia, Italia
In the Gargano peninsula of Puglia, the Sanctuary of San Pio da Pietrelcina marks the place where Padre Pio — the Capuchin friar who bore the visible wounds of Christ's...
Sacro Monte di Orta
Orta San Giulio, Piedmont, Italia
On a green hill overlooking Lake Orta and the island of San Giulio, twenty chapels narrate the life of St....
Santuario della Santa Casa di Loreto
Loreto, Ancona, Italia
Three stone walls, tradition holds, once formed the house where the angel appeared to Mary in Nazareth....
Sacro Monte di Varallo
Varallo, Piedmont, Italia
In 1491, a Franciscan friar who had served as rector of the Holy Land set out to bring Jerusalem to those who could not reach it....
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