Maria Plain Pilgrimage Church
A 17th-century Marian pilgrimage church above Salzburg, centred on an image long venerated as the Maria Plain grace image.
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A 17th-century Marian pilgrimage church above Salzburg, centred on an image long venerated as the Maria Plain grace image.
Salzburg’s metropolitan cathedral, whose origins reach the 8th century and whose present Early Baroque building was consecrated in 1628.
A Benedictine archabbey founded by Saint Rupert in 696 and continuously inhabited by a monastic community for more than thirteen centuries.
A Benedictine women’s monastery founded between 712 and 715, with an uninterrupted religious community on Salzburg’s Nonnberg.