Fifteenth-century monasteries frescoed inside and out, still vivid.
Granite stelae up to 33 metres tall marking the tombs of the Aksumite kings, near the chapel said to hold the Ark of the Covenant.
Church blasted out of solid granite in 1969, lit by a copper dome โ Helsinkiโs most striking modern building.
Baroque Benedictine abbey on a rock above the Danube, with a gilded library of 100,000 books and frescoed marble hall.
A chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000 people โ chandelier included โ beside the Gothic St Barbaraโs Cathedral.
Eleventh-century cathedral with original mosaics, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Island of wooden churches, stilt houses and its own mythology.
Golden-domed monastery complex above catacombs of mummified monks.
Freshwater lake ringed by biblical sites and lakeside hot springs.
Monasteries atop soaring rock pillars.
Greek Orthodox monastery clinging to a sheer cliff face in the Pontic Mountains.
St Petersburgโs onion-domed church, lined inside with 7,000 mยฒ of mosaic.
Underground cathedral carved into the tunnels of a working salt mine.
Medieval cathedral, round tower and Cormacโs Chapel crowning a limestone outcrop where St Patrick baptised a king.
White basilica on the highest hill in Paris, with the artistsโ square of Place du Tertre and the whole city spread out below.
Parisโs 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
The largest surviving Romanesque church in Europe, built for pilgrims on the road to Santiago and topped by a five-tier octagonal bell tower.
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