Basilica of Loretto, Burgenland
Loretto, Eisenstadt-Umgebung, Burgenland, Austria Christianity
A major Burgenland pilgrimage basilica rooted in a 17th-century copy of the Loreto Marian image and Holy House tradition.
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Rankweil Basilica
Liebfrauenberg, Rankweil, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria Christianity
Vorarlberg’s major Marian pilgrimage basilica, centred on a 15th-century grace image, the Silver Cross and the devotional tradition of Saint Fridolin’s stone.
Maria Luggau Basilica
Maria Luggau, Lesachtal, Hermagor, Carinthia, Austria Christianity
A major Carinthian Marian pilgrimage basilica whose origin tradition is associated with Helena and a dream reported in 1513.
Wilten Basilica
Wilten, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria Christianity
A major Marian pilgrimage basilica in Innsbruck-Wilten, combining early Christian archaeological evidence with an important Rococo church.
Frauenkirchen Basilica
Frauenkirchen, Neusiedl am See, Burgenland, Austria Christianity
Burgenland’s major Marian pilgrimage basilica, with a shrine documented in 1324 and a present Baroque church completed in 1702.
St. Florian Monastery
St. Florian, Linz-Land, Upper Austria, Austria Christianity
An Augustinian monastery founded in 1071 on a site long associated with Saint Florian, combining living religious practice with major Baroque heritage.
Gurk Cathedral
Gurk, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia, Austria Christianity
A major Romanesque church in Carinthia whose hundred-column crypt contains the tomb venerated as that of Saint Hemma of Gurk.
Mariendom Linz
Innenstadt, Linz, Upper Austria, Austria Christianity
The cathedral of Linz, begun in 1862 and solemnly consecrated in 1924 after a 62-year Gothic Revival building campaign.
Maria Plain Pilgrimage Church
Plainberg, Bergheim, Salzburg-Umgebung, Salzburg, Austria Christianity
A 17th-century Marian pilgrimage church above Salzburg, centred on an image long venerated as the Maria Plain grace image.
Pöstlingberg Basilica
Pöstlingberg, Linz, Upper Austria, Austria Christianity
A Baroque pilgrimage basilica above Linz dedicated to the Seven Sorrows of Mary and centred on a venerated Pietà.
Salzburg Cathedral
Altstadt, Salzburg, Austria Christianity
Salzburg’s metropolitan cathedral, whose origins reach the 8th century and whose present Early Baroque building was consecrated in 1628.
St. Peter’s Abbey, Salzburg
Altstadt, Salzburg, Austria Christianity
A Benedictine archabbey founded by Saint Rupert in 696 and continuously inhabited by a monastic community for more than thirteen centuries.