Churches and holy places often are important not only for religious reasons, but also they create magnificent elements of the landscape.
In the years 1329-1869 Szydlow has earned the name "Polish Carcassonne" thanks to the preserved to the present fourteenth-century urban planning arrangement con more...
Helsingborg is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, officially established May 21, 1085 year (then in Denmark). The location at the narrowest point of the Sound more...
Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in 1727. This larch church is one of the most famous baroque wooden churches in Poland, with the more...
Mezquita de Córdoba - Pearl of the architecture of the former, monument inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Great Mosque of Cordoba (La Mezquita) is no more...
The Sanctuary of Truth is dramatically set on a rocky point of the coast just north of Pattaya, in the small town of Naklua. Construction was only begun after m more...
The old city, founded in the first century. Just like Samarkand, Bukhara was the center of caravan trade route from Central Asia to Europe. In 999 conquered by more...
Oliwa Cathedral organ were built in the years 1763-1788 by Jan Wulf from Orneta, the organ-builder completed by Gdansk Frederick Rudolf Dalitz. Organ were later more...
Oliwa Archcathedral has its origins in 1186. It is three-aisled basilica and the longest in the world a Cistercian church opaque sacred art in the Renaissance, more...
The first mention of Kwiaton date back to 1423. Then it belonged to the family of Gladysz. In 1601 Kwiaton attached to the lands of the Sandomierz province gove more...
The first mention of a new settlement Nowe Miasto Lubawskie dates from 1325. In 1353 the settlement was given municipal rights. In the fourteenth century a chur more...
Pere-Lachaise is the most beautiful and largest cemetery in Paris and one of the largest cemetery in the world. The name of the cemetery comes from the name Jes more...
Sveti Stefan is a small islet and hotel resort in Montenegro, circa 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southeast of Budva. Once an island, connected to the mainland by a cau more...
In the Bieszczady mountains, wildest Polish preserved many churches. In terms of architectural types Bieszczady churches can be divided into: Lemko, Bojkowska, more...
Sagrada Familia - Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family is a unique Art Nouveau Roman Catholic church. It is considered to be the greatest work of th more...
Swieta Lipka is a village within Kętrzyn County. The village is known for the pilgrimage church, Our Dear Lady of Swieta Lipka, where the road leads among baroq more...
Chartres Cathedral - is a medieval Catholic cathedral of the Latin Church located in Chartres, France, about 80 kilometres southwest of Paris. Chartres history more...
Wambierzyce - the village is situated at an altitude of 370–410 m in the picturesque Cedron valley on the eastern slopes of the Table Mountains. Here is a Mari more...
The word pechera means cave. The word lavra is used to describe high-ranking male monasteries for monks of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Kiev Pecherska Lavra is more...
Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, where is a relic of the Buddha is the most revered by Buddhists place in Sri Lanka. There is a tooth founder of Buddhism Sid more...
Vang stave church is the biggest attraction in Karpacz. It was built in the twelfth century in the town of Vang in southern Norway in the initial period of the more...
Close Leczyca lies the village Tum, with a very old Romanesque collegiate church, called the collegiate Leczyca. It is here that first arose in Poland (the late more...
Built in 1150 on the bank of River Chelmer Ulting Church was restored in 1870. It is almost an icon of English countryside - peaceful and picturesque. more...
Medieval cathedral (the construction started in 1185) and one of the most impresive such objects in the world. The cathedral is 83 m high and is exampled of Got more...
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