United Kingdom
St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh (445): the pagan hilltop where the High King who united Ireland lies buried
Secondo la tradizione, san Patrizio fondò una chiesa su questa collina attorno al 445, scegliendo un luogo già…
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Australia
St Patrick’s Cathedral: Australia’s tallest church, built in bluestone over nearly eighty years
A Melbourne, il vescovo Goold benedisse una prima pietra per una chiesa più piccola sul sito il 9…
Ivory Coast
St Paul’s Cathedral, Abidjan
A cathedral hung from a colossal figure of the saint - Aldo Spirito's cable-stayed sanctuary above the lagoon,…
United Kingdom
St Paul’s Cathedral: the dome that survived both a great fire and the Blitz
Sul sito di St Paul's, a Londra, sorge una cattedrale fin dal 604 d.C., quando Melito fu consacrato…
Germany
St Peter’s Cathedral in Bautzen (1000–1530): the Same Church, Catholics and Lutherans Together for Almost Five Hundred Years
Dal 1530, una tenda alta 4 metri separa il presbiterio del duomo di Bautzen: da una parte i…
Switzerland
St Pierre Cathedral, Geneva (1160–1230): Where Calvin Preached for Twenty-Three Years, and Beneath Which an Allobrogian Chief of the 1st Century BC Rests
Durante la Riforma, le folle smantellarono altari, distrussero statue e dipinti, frantumarono gli organi — fusi per farne…
Belgium
St Rumbold’s Cathedral: the tower left unfinished for 500 years, whose planned stones legend says built a wall in Holland
Costruita tra il 1200 e il 1520 e dedicata a san Rombaldo, patrono di Mechelen — missionario e…
North Macedonia
St Sophia Cathedral, Ohrid: Byzantine frescoes a whitewashed Ottoman mosque accidentally preserved for five centuries
L'attuale chiesa di Santa Sofia sorge sulle fondamenta di una cattedrale metropolitana distrutta dalle invasioni slave agli inizi…
Czechia
St Wenceslas Cathedral, Olomouc: steps from the unsolved 1306 murder that ended a 400-year-old dynasty
Il principe d'appannaggio Svatopluk avviò la costruzione della cattedrale tra il 1104 e il 1107; suo figlio Venceslao…
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