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Churches and holy places often are important not only for religious reasons, but also they create magnificent elements of the landscape.


Szydlow - Polish Carcassonne / Szyd??w - Polskie Carcassonne

Szydlow - Polish Carcassonne

Szyd??w - Polskie Carcassonne

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...

Szydlow Holy Cross Province Poland



Helsingborg Old Town

Helsingborg Old Town

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...

Helsingborg Skane Sweden



Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary / Ko?ci?? farny Zwiastowania Naj?wi?tszej Maryi Pannie

Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Ko?ci?? farny Zwiastowania Naj?wi?tszej Maryi Pannie

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...

Tomaszow Lubelski Lublin Province Poland




Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba  / Mezquita de Cordoba

Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba

Mezquita de Cordoba

Mezquita de C?rdoba - Pearl of the architecture of the former, monument inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Great Mosque of Cordoba (La Mezquita) is no more...

Cordoba Andalusia Spain



Sanctuary of Truth / Prasat Sut Ja-Tum

Sanctuary of Truth

Prasat Sut Ja-Tum

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...

Pattaya Chonburi Thailand



Bukhara Old Town / Buxoro Meros Shahar

Bukhara Old Town

Buxoro Meros Shahar

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...

Bukhara Buxoro Uzbekistan



Oliwa Cathedral organ / Organy w katedrze oliwskiej

Oliwa Cathedral organ

Organy w katedrze oliwskiej

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...

Gdansk Pomerania Poland



Gdansk Oliwa Archcathedral / Katedra w Gda?sku Oliwa

Gdansk Oliwa Archcathedral

Katedra w Gda?sku Oliwa

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...

Gdansk Pomerania Poland



Orthodox church Saint Paraskeva / Cerkiew ?w. Paraksewy

Orthodox church Saint Paraskeva

Cerkiew ?w. Paraksewy

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...

Kwiaton Lesser Poland Poland



Saint Thomas Basilica (Catholic) in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie / Bazylika ?w. Tomasza Aposto?a w Nowym Mie?cie Lubawskim

Saint Thomas Basilica (Catholic) in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie

Bazylika ?w. Tomasza Aposto?a w Nowym Mie?cie Lubawskim

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...

Nowe Miasto Lubawskie Warmia-Masuria Poland



Mijas

Mijas

Whitewashed villages clinging to the mountains extending near the coast is one of the great attractions of Andalusia. Like some other towns on the Costa del Sol more...

Mijas Andalusia Spain



Pere-Lachaise

Pere-Lachaise

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...

Paris Ile-de-France France



Saint Stefan Islet / Sveti Stefan

Saint Stefan Islet

Sveti Stefan

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...

Budva Budva Montenegro



Orthodox churches in Bieszczady / Cerkwie w Bieszczadach

Orthodox churches in Bieszczady

Cerkwie w Bieszczadach

In the Bieszczady mountains, wildest Polish preserved many churches. In terms of architectural types Bieszczady churches can be divided into: Lemko, Bojkowska, more...

Ustrzyki Dolne Subcarpathia Poland



Mostar

Mostar

Mostar ? capital Herzegovina, is one of the most beautifully situated cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located at the foot of the mountains and along the curre more...

Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia & Herzegovina



Sagrada Familia / Bas?lica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Fam?lia

Sagrada Familia

Bas?lica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Fam?lia

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...

Barcelona Catalonia Spain



Swieta Lipka / ?wi?ta Lipka

Swieta Lipka

?wi?ta Lipka

Swieta Lipka is a village within K?trzyn County. The village is known for the pilgrimage church, Our Dear Lady of Swieta Lipka, where the road leads among baroq more...

Swieta Lipka Warmia-Masuria Poland



Erfurt

Erfurt

Erfurt is the capital city of Thuringia. It was first mentioned in 742, as Saint Boniface founded the diocese. The town quickly became the economic centre of th more...

Erfurt Thuringia Germany



Chartres Cathedral / Cathedrale de Chartres

Chartres Cathedral

Cathedrale de Chartres

Chartres Cathedral - is a medieval Catholic cathedral of the Latin Church located in Chartres, France, about 80 kilometres southwest of Paris. Chartres history more...

Chartres Centre France



Wambierzyce

Wambierzyce

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...

Wambierzyce Lower Silesia Poland



Kiev Pecherska Lavra  / Peczerskaja Lavra

Kiev Pecherska Lavra

Peczerskaja Lavra

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...

Kiev Kiev Ukraine



Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic / Temple of the Sri Dalada Maligawa

Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic

Temple of the Sri Dalada Maligawa

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...

Kandy Central Sri Lanka



Vang stave church / ?wi?tynia Wang

Vang stave church

?wi?tynia Wang

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...

Karpacz Lower Silesia Poland



Ancient City of Nessebar / Nesebyr

Ancient City of Nessebar

Nesebyr

Neseber is an ancient town in Bulgaria, near Burgas on Black Sea peninsula. The beginnings of settlement by Thracian tribe date back to about a thousand years b more...

Burgas Burgas Bulgaria



Tum - Collegiate Church of St. Mary and St. Alexius / Archikolegiata w Tumie

Tum - Collegiate Church of St. Mary and St. Alexius

Archikolegiata w Tumie

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...

Leczyca Lodz Province Poland



Leczyca / ??czyca

Leczyca

??czyca

Leczyca is a town whose origins date back to the X-XIII centuries. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries was the most important city of the province. Over the n more...

Leczyca Lodz Province Poland



Ulting Church

Ulting Church

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...

Maldon Essex, England United Kingdom



Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral

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...

Lincoln Lincolnshire, England United Kingdom




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