Brazil · Cathedral
São Luís Cathedral: a Jesuit church of 1699, its gilded altar the first of its kind in Brazil, in the city of tiled facades
La Cattedrale di Nostra Signora della Vittoria — la Catedral da Sé di São Luís — non nacque…
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Austria · Abbey
Schottenstift (1155-1200): il monastero “scozzese” fondato da monaci irlandesi, per un equivoco di latino medievale
Nel 1155, Enrico II d'Austria portò a Vienna monaci non dalla Scozia ma dall'Irlanda, passando per il monastero…
Angola · Cathedral
Sé Catedral de Luanda: built by merchants of the lower city to rival the churches above
A Luanda, capitale dell'Angola, l'attuale Sé Catedral, formalmente Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios (Chiesa di Nostra Signora…
Guinea-Bissau · Cathedral
Sé Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Candelária: a cathedral that doubles as a working lighthouse on the Geba River
A Bissau, capitale della Guinea-Bissau, la costruzione dell'attuale cattedrale, dedicata a Nossa Senhora da Candelária, iniziò il 28…
Brazil · Cathedral
Sé Cathedral, São Paulo: where an ecumenical service for a tortured journalist became the first public crack in Brazil’s dictatorship
Sulla Praça da Sé, punto zero da cui si misurano le distanze stradali di San Paolo, la cattedrale…
Macao · Cathedral
Sé Cathedral: rebuilt in concrete in 1937, a world away from — and often confused with — the ruined Jesuit church nearby
A Macao, in Cina, la Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady (Sé Catedral da Natividade de Nossa…
Sao Tome and Principe · Cathedral
Sé Cathedral: rebuilt roughly every century since 1576, on an island that pioneered the plantation economy
Nella città di São Tomé, capitale di São Tomé e Príncipe, una prima chiesa dedicata a Nossa Senhora…
India · Cathedral
Se Cathedral: the largest church in Asia, its facade missing a tower since 1776
A Old Goa, in India, la cattedrale della Sé, dedicata a santa Caterina, commemora la vittoria portoghese sulle…
Portugal · Cathedral
Sé de Évora (1250): the cathedral-fortress where Vasco da Gama’s fleet flags were blessed before India
Évora fu riconquistata definitivamente dagli arabi nel 1166 da Geraldo Sem Pavor ("Geraldo senza paura"), e subito dopo…
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