Source: Pixabay Meteora, in central Greece, is one of the most awe-inspiring sights in the Orthodox Christian world: ancient monasteries perched atop sheer rock pillars, seemingly suspended between earth and

Source: Pixabay Mont-Saint-Michel – a medieval abbey-town rising from a tidal bay in Normandy – is one of France’s most beloved landmarks and a pilgrimage site dedicated to the Archangel

Source: Pixabay Mont-Saint-Michel is unlike any other pilgrimage site: a whole medieval town climbing a rock in the sea, ringed by some of the most powerful tides in Europe. Visiting

Reaching into the Aegean from northern Greece, Mount Athos — the Holy Mountain — is a self-governing monastic republic and the foremost centre of Orthodox Christian spirituality. Home to twenty

Source: Pixabay Najaf and Karbala, the two great shrine cities of southern Iraq, are among the holiest places in Shia Islam and the focus of some of the largest pilgrimages

Source: Pixabay Nazareth is the town where, according to the Gospels, Jesus grew up – the place that gave him the name by which he is often known, Jesus of

Source: Pixabay Saint Catherine’s Monastery, set beneath Mount Sinai in southern Egypt, is among the oldest working monasteries in the world and a place revered across three faiths. Combined with

Source: Pixabay Samarkand, the storied capital of Timur and a great crossroads of the Silk Road, is one of the most beautiful Islamic cities on earth. This guide brings together

Though St Peter’s draws the crowds, it is the Archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano that holds the highest rank in the Catholic world. As the cathedral of Rome and

Source: Pixabay Sanliurfa, the City of Prophets, is one of Turkey’s most sacred and ancient destinations, home to the pool of Abraham at Balikligol and close to the astonishing ruins