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St Canice's Cathedral and Round Tower
Kilkenny, Ireland
A medieval cathedral beside an ancient round tower you can climb.
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Kilkenny, Ireland
A medieval cathedral beside an ancient round tower you can climb.
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United Kingdom
A cathedral in a hollow in Britain's smallest city, a pilgrimage site.
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Piran, Slovenia
A hillside church with a bell tower and the best view over Piran.
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The High Kirk of Edinburgh with a distinctive crown-shaped spire on the Royal Mile.
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Zagreb, Croatia
A church with a colourful tiled roof showing the coats of arms of Croatia and Zagreb.
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Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg's famous baroque church, with a tower viewing platform over the harbour.
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Cluj-Napoca, Romania
A soaring Gothic church dominating the main square.
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Kyiv, Ukraine
A blue-and-gold monastery with a bright domed cathedral, rebuilt in the 1990s on a medieval site.
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Tallinn, Estonia
A tall medieval church with a landmark spire and a tower you can climb for views over the old town.
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Dublin, Ireland
Ireland's largest cathedral, linked to Jonathan Swift, with a calm park beside it.
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Mdina, Malta
A baroque cathedral on a small square in the heart of Mdina.
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Salzburg, Austria
A very old abbey with a quiet cemetery and catacombs set into the cliff.
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Bucharest, Romania
A tiny, ornate 18th-century church in a quiet courtyard in the Old Town.
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Prague, Czechia
A monastery with ornate baroque library halls full of old books and ceiling frescoes.
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Syracuse, Italy
A baroque facade hiding a Greek temple within its walls.
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Hungary
A baroque abbey on a peninsula in Lake Balaton, with sweeping lake views.
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Trier, Germany
A cathedral with Roman foundations and a relic of the Holy Robe.
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Turku, Finland
Finland's mother church, a medieval brick cathedral beside the Aura river.
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Helsinki, Finland
A red-brick Eastern Orthodox cathedral with golden domes, on a hill overlooking the harbour.
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Valencia, Spain
A cathedral of many styles with a climbable bell tower, and a chalice claimed to be the Holy Grail.
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Madrid, Spain
Madrid's cathedral, finished only in the late twentieth century, standing across from the Royal Palace.
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Plovdiv, Bulgaria
A quiet Orthodox monastery in the Rhodope foothills.
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Rome, Italy
A church built over a church built over a Roman temple, like a layer cake of history.
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City of San Marino, San Marino
The neoclassical church dedicated to the founder saint.