India
Ruins of the Church of St. Augustine: the lone tower left standing after one of Goa’s greatest churches collapsed
A Old Goa, in India, i frati agostiniani, giunti nel 1587, costruirono tra il 1597 e il 1602…
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Bahrain
Sacred Heart Church, Manama: the oldest Catholic church still standing in the Gulf, built on land granted by Bahrain’s own ruler
Su Isa Al Kabeer Avenue, nel cuore di Manama, capitale del Bahrein, la chiesa del Sacro Cuore è…
Lazio
San Bonaventura al Palatino
San Bonaventura al Palatino, Rome. Lalupa / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Franciscan church on the Palatine Hill San…
Veneto
San Giacomo di Rialto: the clock of 1410 and the last Gothic porch in Venice
The church Venetians call San Giacometto: tradition makes it the oldest in the city, its clock dates from…
Veneto
San Nicola da Tolentino — a Roman Temple Front Bolted onto a Venetian Church
Built by Scamozzi in 1591-1602 for the Theatines and left unfaced, the Tolentini church got its six-column Corinthian…
Andorra
Sanctuary of Meritxell (12th century): a Fire on 8 September 1972 Destroyed the Statue, on the Anniversary of Its Coronation and of Andorra’s National Day
L'8 settembre 1921, la statua romanica della Vergine di Meritxell, patrona di Andorra dal 1873, fu solennemente incoronata…
Czechia
Sedlec Ossuary (1278–1870): the Chandelier That Contains at Least One of Every Bone in the Human Body, Among 40,000 to 70,000 Skeletons
Nel 1278, l'abate Enrico sparse una manciata di terra portata dal Golgota sul cimitero dell'abbazia cistercense di Sedlec,…
Seminary Church of St Anthony of Padua, Košice
The longest church in Slovakia: begun after the fire of 1333, finished in 1405, used as an arms…
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Umbria
Spoleto: Basilica di San Salvatore – Virtual Tour 360°
One of Umbria's oldest surviving churches, where reused Roman columns and an 8th-century Lombard remodelling sit side by…
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