The World’s Sacred Places

Sacred Places

Discover a curated guide to significant sacred places, pilgrimage traditions, architecture, documented history and practical visitor information across cultures and faith traditions.

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Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes

Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie, France Christianity

One of the world’s major Catholic pilgrimage centres, associated with the 1858 Lourdes apparitions and a long medical review tradition for reported…

Our Lady of Lourdes