The Jordan riverbank where John baptised Jesus, with Byzantine churches and pilgrims wading in white robes.
Visit the historic wooden tserkvas (churches) in the Carpathian region of Poland and Ukraine, showcasing unique Eastern Orthodox architecture and cultural heritage.
Visit the Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica, UNESCO World Heritage wooden churches built in the 17th century in Poland
The world's greatest Renaissance church.
The basilica over the grotto venerated as Jesusโs birthplace in Bethlehem.
A White Sea island fortress-monastery that became the first camp of the Gulag.
The most complete Gothic cathedral in France, with 176 windows of unrepeatable twelfth-century blue.
Onion domes over meadows: five monasteries and thirty churches in a town with no buildings taller than two storeys.
The Bagrati cathedral, Gelati monastery and the Prometheus cave, in the capital of ancient Colchis.
Portugal's oldest city and its religious heart, with the baroque stairway of Bom Jesus do Monte.
The end of the Camino: the cathedral with the swinging Botafumeiro and pilgrims arriving in the Praza do Obradoiro.
The cathedral where Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170, the destination of Chaucer's pilgrims.
Macau's iconic baroque church facade.
Bernini's vast colonnaded piazza.
Medieval marble monastery, UNESCO-listed.
One of the worldโs oldest lakes, with Byzantine churches on the shore and a UNESCO-listed old town.
Serbian Orthodox monastery with thousands of medieval frescoes, UNESCO-listed.
Serbian Orthodox monastery, UNESCO-listed.
Red-stone Jesuit mission, UNESCO-listed.
Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
Birthplace of Jesus and the Nativity church.
Painted churches and forest trails.
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.
Bulgaria's grandest mountain monastery.
Ancient churches on a Black Sea peninsula, UNESCO-listed.
A chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000 people โ chandelier included โ beside the Gothic St Barbaraโs Cathedral.
Island of wooden churches, stilt houses and its own mythology.
Eleventh-century cathedral with original mosaics, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Golden-domed monastery complex above catacombs of mummified monks.
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