The World’s Sacred Places
Discover a curated guide to significant sacred places, pilgrimage traditions, architecture, documented history and practical visitor information across cultures and faith traditions.
Curated Discovery
Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.
The principal sanctuary of Caravaca de la Cruz, centred on the veneration of the Vera Cruz relic and a perpetual Catholic Jubilee…
A UNESCO-listed royal monastery and major Marian pilgrimage centre dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Asturias’s principal pilgrimage sanctuary, centred on the Holy Cave and the venerated image of Our Lady of Covadonga.
A Benedictine mountain abbey and major Marian pilgrimage centre associated with the venerated Black Madonna known as La Moreneta.
A major Spanish Marian sanctuary centred on the venerated image of Our Lady of the Pillar.
Barcelona’s landmark basilica, begun in 1882 and transformed by Antoni Gaudí into a globally recognized work of sacred architecture.
The principal shrine of the Camino de Santiago, built over the site traditionally identified with the tomb of St. James the Apostle.
Emblematic Catholic pilgrimage sanctuary of Alsace, centred on the tomb and cult of St. Odile and a long tradition of prayer on…
Vast royal abbey founded in 1101, mother house of the Fontevrist order and necropolis of leading Plantagenets including Eleanor of Aquitaine and…
Historic Benedictine abbey and major centre of the cult of St. Benedict, whose relics are venerated at Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire.
Mother monastery of the Carthusian Order, founded by St. Bruno and six companions in 1084 in the Chartreuse mountains.
Internationally influential Benedictine abbey renowned for the modern restoration of Benedictine life in France and scholarship on Gregorian chant and liturgy.
