Sacred Places
10 places found
ChristianityAlbenga Cathedral
, Italy
A medieval Roman Catholic cathedral in Liguria, Italy, dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel and serving as seat of the Diocese of Albenga-Imperia.
church
ChristianityAltamura Cathedral
, Italy
A thirteenth-century Roman Catholic cathedral in Apulia, southern Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a Hohenstaufen 'palatine' church.
church
IndigenousAltar of Consus
, Italy
An ancient subterranean Roman altar dedicated jointly to the gods Consus, Mars, and the lares, set beneath the Circus Maximus in the heart of the early city of Rome.
sacred natural site
ChristianityFlorence Cathedral
, Italy
Florence Cathedral, the Duomo di Firenze, is the mother church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Florence in Tuscany, formally dedicated as Santa Maria del Fiore in honour of the Virgin Mary.
church
JudaismItalian Synagogue
, Italy
The Italian Synagogue, Scola Italiana, in the Ghetto Nuovo of Venice serves the Italian-rite Jewish community that grew up in the city from the sixteenth century onward, one of five historic scole within the Venetian Jewish quarter.
synagogue
ChristianityNaples Cathedral
, Italy
The Roman Catholic cathedral of Naples in southern Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and renowned as the Cathedral of Saint Januarius, the city's patron.
church
JudaismOstia Synagogue
, Italy
An ancient Jewish synagogue and archaeological site at Ostia, the seaport of Imperial Rome in present-day Lazio, Italy, the oldest synagogue in Europe and the oldest known outside the Land of Israel.
synagogue
ChristianityRagusa Cathedral
, Italy
A Roman Catholic cathedral in Ragusa, Sicily, Italy, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and the seat of the Bishops of Ragusa since the diocese was created in 1950.
church
ChristianitySt Mark's Basilica
, Italy
The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark in Venice, an eleventh-century Byzantine-Romanesque masterpiece holding the relics of the Evangelist and presiding over Saint Mark's Square.
church
JudaismVercelli Synagogue
, Italy
An Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Vercelli, northern Italy, completed in 1878 in the Moorish Revival style by the locally born architect Marco Treves, who also designed the Great Synagogue of Florence.
synagogue