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  • Ayacucho, church of San Francisco de Paula, one of the Santos Niños, the "Holy Chidren" of the local poular faith. Ayacucho is a colonial city where Indian and mestizo traditions are mixed as one. , the "Holy Chidren" of the local poular faith. Ayacucho is a colonial city where Indian and mestizo traditions are mixed as one.
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  • Ateshkadeh. Often referred to as the Zoroastrian Fire Temple, this elegant neoclassical building, reflected in an oval pool in the garden courtyard, houses a flame that is said to have been burning since about AD 470. Visible through a window from the entrance hall, the flame was transferred to Ardakan in 1174, to Yazd in 1474 and to its present site in 1940. It is cherished (not worshipped) by the followers of the Zoroastrian faith – the oldest of the world's monotheistic religions.
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  • Ateshkadeh. Often referred to as the Zoroastrian Fire Temple, this elegant neoclassical building, reflected in an oval pool in the garden courtyard, houses a flame that is said to have been burning since about AD 470. Visible through a window from the entrance hall, the flame was transferred to Ardakan in 1174, to Yazd in 1474 and to its present site in 1940. It is cherished (not worshipped) by the followers of the Zoroastrian faith – the oldest of the world's monotheistic religions.
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  • Ateshkadeh. Often referred to as the Zoroastrian Fire Temple, this elegant neoclassical building, reflected in an oval pool in the garden courtyard, houses a flame that is said to have been burning since about AD 470. Visible through a window from the entrance hall, the flame was transferred to Ardakan in 1174, to Yazd in 1474 and to its present site in 1940. It is cherished (not worshipped) by the followers of the Zoroastrian faith – the oldest of the world's monotheistic religions.
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  • Ateshkadeh. Often referred to as the Zoroastrian Fire Temple, this elegant neoclassical building, reflected in an oval pool in the garden courtyard, houses a flame that is said to have been burning since about AD 470. Visible through a window from the entrance hall, the flame was transferred to Ardakan in 1174, to Yazd in 1474 and to its present site in 1940. It is cherished (not worshipped) by the followers of the Zoroastrian faith – the oldest of the world's monotheistic religions.
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  • Pessina Cremonese. Cars of faithful Sikhs outside the temple.
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  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
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  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
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  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
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  • Pessina Cremonese. Sikh believers eating and drinking on the ground floor of the temple. The establishment of "Langar" (common kitchen) serves to create social equality. The Sikh religion requires that the faithful have always the right to be fed.
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  • Pessina Cremonese. Sikh believers eating and drinking on the ground floor of the temple. The establishment of "Langar" (common kitchen) serves to create social equality. The Sikh religion requires that the faithful have always the right to be fed.
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  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
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  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
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  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
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  • Pessina Cremonese. The kitchen of the Sikh temple. The kitchen is open from 3 am to late at night because the Sikh religion requires that the faithful have always the right to be fed.La cuvcina del tempio sikh, recentemente inaugurato. La cucina è aperta dalle 3 del mattino a tarda notte perchè la religione sikh prescrive che i fedeli hanno sempre diritto a essere nutriti.
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  • Hangzhou: "Lingyin Si", Temple of the Soul's Retrear, built in AD 326.
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  • Nile Delta. Pilgrimage to St Damiana monastery, between el Mansoura and Damietta, is one of the most important for Egyptian coptics.
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  • Hangzhou: "Lingyin Si", Temple of the Soul's Retrear, built in AD 326.
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  • Hangzhou: Xi Hu, Western Lake, one of the most famous of China. Around the lake are gardens, bridges and pavilions.
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  • Atlantic Drive, Achill Sound. Kildavnet cemetery.
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  • Hangzhou: "Lingyin Si", Temple of the Soul's Retrear, built in AD 326.
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  • Hangzhou: "Lingyin Si", Temple of the Soul's Retrear, built in AD 326.
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  • Coptic monastery of Deir as-Suriani (monastery of the Syrians) dates from the 7th century. It is the smallest of Wadi al-Natrun but the most artistically actractive. The monastery has a narrow and elongated plan which supposedly recalls the shape of Noah's Ark. The magnificent wooden gate called "Gate of the Prophecies".
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  • The Coras are a small Indigenous people living in the Sierra Madre mountains of the Mexican state of Nayarit. The Coras still follows their traditions, protecting in a strong way their secret rites that anthropologists believe amongst the most interesting of Latin America for their synchretism. The ceremonies for the Holy Week are characterized by impressive ceremonies. The Judios paints their bodies simbolysing the Evil forces and struggles in the streets of the villages looking for Jesus.
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  • Western Wall, Jewish whorshippers celebrating Bar Mitzvah.
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  • Glencolmcille (or Glemcolcille), The Turas - menhir with christian crosses translated as the journey - are part of a strong Christian pilgrimage tradition in Ireland. The turas links a number of ancient standing stones some of which date back to 3000BC. Here St Columba founded a important monastery. The village  is famous for the Turas, a pilgrimage and round of stations (places on a route used for prayer and devotion). Historically the Turas was performed by barefoot pilgrims at midnight on the eve of June the 9th.
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  • Pale. The hermitage of Santa Maria Giacobbe, built around 1200 to worship ‘Maria Jacobi’, one of the pious women supposed to have been present at the cucifixion of Christ. Along the step trail to the hermitage a Holy Spirit carved in the rocks.
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  • Rasiglia, a little town built on the water near the sources of Menotre river.
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  • Holy Week procession
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre. Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre). Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week. The “fariseos” interpretes the part of “spanish”, the Jesus Christ’s enemies. Isolated within the remote landscape of the formidabile and spectacular Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon) live more than 50.000 Tarahumaras, the first largest Indian people of Norhern Mexico that call themselves Raramuri, “runners”, for thier ability to run long distances. Many Tarahumaras live in caves and log cabins, down in the canyon in winter and in the highlands in summer. They still retain strong traditions, today menaced by increasing pressure from increasing desertification and drug trafficants. Still today, the most importan event is the Holy Week, celebrated for days with a unique religious synchretism of Catholicism and traditional worship.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre. Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre. Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week.
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  • Cirò Marina, celebrations of St Cataldo the town's patron saint.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, in the night the monks prepare the bread. The monastey, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
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  • Old Cairo. St Barbara Coptyc church, holy mass. Built on the ruins of a 5th century church the present church dates to the 12th century. The fine wooden iconostasis with inlays of ivory is from the 13th century. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Holy Week. Good Friday. The most spectacular Holy Week throughout Latin America, a sort of time machine to find an ancient Spain, where roman soldiers with the faces of Maya peasants interpret for days a choral rite alive in the collective memory as a matter of chronicle. In theatrical scenery of Antigua, between colonial palaces and Baroque churches uncovered by frequent earthquakes and eruptions of nearby volcanoes, processions come one after the other in an increasingly spasmodic crescendo until Holy Friday. From dawn to sunset for thousands of penitents, curucuchos rigorously dressed in purple, is a privilege, often passed down from father to son, to load on the shoulders heavy groups of statues with Jesus Christ, God, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary.
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  • Mevlana Museum. Its fluted dome of turquoise tiles is one of Turkey's most splendid architectures. The former lodge of the whirling dervishes is a holy place visited every year by more than a 1.5 million people. Mevlana, "Our Guide", born in 1207 in Afghanistan, was one of the world's great mystic philosophers, among the most beloved and respected in the Islamic world.
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  • Mevlana Museum. The former lodge of the whirling dervishes is a holy place visited every year by more than a 1.5 million people. Mevlana, "Our Guide", born in 1207 in Afghanistan, was one of the world's great mystic philosophers, among the most beloved and respected in the Islamic world.
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  • San Francesco della Vigna church. The Relic of Saint Christina. The site was originally a vineyard (Vigna) and a chapel recalled the spot where an angel supposedly had pronounced Pax tibi Evangelista meus to the shipwrecked apostle St. Mark, patron of Venice.
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  • St Geremia church.The edifice is popular as the seat of the cult of Saint Lucy of Syracuse, whose remains are housed inside.
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  • St Geremia church.The edifice is popular as the seat of the cult of Saint Lucy of Syracuse, whose remains are housed inside.
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  • The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, completed in 1538, is one of the greatest churches in the city. The Altar of the Relics contains one of the most remarkable relics of Venice: the Precious Blood of Christ. This relic, much venerated in the church of Santa Cristina of Constantinople, came into possession of Melchiorre Trevisan who gave it to the Frari in  1480. The three bas-reliefs made by Cabianca in Carrara marble, representing the Crucifixion, the Deposition and Burial of Jesus Christ. In the two lower panes are placed angels with symbols of the Passion.
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  • Nile Delta. Pilgrimage to St Damiana monastery, between el Mansoura and Damietta, is one of the most important for Egyptian coptics.
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  • Pessina Cremonese. The Sikh Temple, recently opened, is the largest in Europe (excluding the UK), with 10,000 square meters of land and 600 construction.
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  • Pessina Cremonese. The new Sikh temple is the biggest of all Europe (out of Great Britain). Many Sicks work in in the Lombardy's farms.
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  • Hebrides, Iona island. The Abbey. In the foreground the St John High Cross.
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  • Santiago de Compostela, cathedral. The Pórtico da Gloria is a Romanesque portico by Master Mateo commissioned by King Ferdinand II of León. The portico has three round arches that correspond to the three naves of the church. The central arch has a tympanum and is divided by a central column containing a depiction of Saint James.
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  • Saint-Dènis, the oldest mosquée built in France. in France.
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  • Saint-Dènis, the oldest mosquée built in France. in France.
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  • Saint -Leu. Procession for Notre-Dame de la Salette.
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  • Cemetery.
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  • Assisi. The Ananda buddhist center is the only European center of this Buddhis community born in USA. Here live more than 80 people, with meditation workshops, a publishing house and yoga teaching. The Ananda's bookshop.
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  • Spello, The Fraternità di Spello (Spello's brotherhood) is a small catholic community of the "Small Evangile's Brothers" living Charles de Foucauld spiritual teching.
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  • Hebrides, Iona island. The Abbey. At right St Martin Cross.
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  • Jorge Amado's house. View of the Largo do Pelourinho with  church "Nossa Senhora dos Pretos", built by and for slaves.
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  • Otomì community of Indian migrants in living in the heart of Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • Indian young farmer in Mexico City agricoltural area. More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth — Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre. Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week.
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  • According to tradition, St. Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus, landed at India's Malabar Coast, in the year 52, and founded 7 churches before he was martyred in Mylapore. St Thomas converted several local Hindu families to Christianity. The present church was rebuilt in 1900 on the same site of the church founded by St Thomas.
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  • Lima: ?Señor de los Milagros?  (Lord of Miracles) the Perù's most solemn procession; many women wear purple for the whole month.
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  • Lima: ?Señor de los Milagros?  (Lord of the Miracles) the Perù's most solemn procession. The traditional "cofradias" of penitents  dressed in purple, a privilege, often passed down from father to son, to load on the shoulders the heavy statue of the Lord of the Miracles.
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  • Holy Week. Good Friday. The most spectacular Holy Week throughout Latin America, a sort of time machine to find an ancient Spain, where roman soldiers with the faces of Maya peasants interpret for days a choral rite alive in the collective memory as a matter of chronicle. In theatrical scenery of Antigua, between colonial palaces and Baroque churches uncovered by frequent earthquakes and eruptions of nearby volcanoes, processions come one after the other in an increasingly spasmodic crescendo until Holy Friday. From dawn to sunset for thousands of penitents, curucuchos rigorously dressed in purple, is a privilege, often passed down from father to son, to load on the shoulders heavy groups of statues with Jesus Christ, God, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary.
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  • Holy Week. Good Friday, early morning procession departs from La Merced. The most spectacular Holy Week throughout Latin America, a sort of time machine to find an ancient Spain, where roman soldiers with the faces of Maya peasants interpret for days a choral rite alive in the collective memory as a matter of chronicle. In theatrical scenery of Antigua, between colonial palaces and Baroque churches uncovered by frequent earthquakes and eruptions of nearby volcanoes, processions come one after the other in an increasingly spasmodic crescendo until Holy Friday. From dawn to sunset for thousands of penitents, curucuchos rigorously dressed in purple, is a privilege, often passed down from father to son, to load on the shoulders heavy groups of statues with Jesus Christ, God, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary.
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  • The most spectacular Holy Week throughout Latin America, a sort of time machine to find an ancient Spain, where roman soldiers with the faces of Maya peasants interpret for days a choral rite alive in the collective memory as a matter of chronicle. In theatrical scenery of Antigua, between colonial palaces and Baroque churches uncovered by frequent earthquakes and eruptions of nearby volcanoes, processions come one after the other in an increasingly spasmodic crescendo until Holy Friday. From dawn to sunset for thousands of penitents, curucuchos rigorously dressed in purple, is a privilege, often passed down from father to son, to load on the shoulders heavy groups of statues with Jesus Christ, God, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary.
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  • The most spectacular Holy Week throughout Latin America, a sort of time machine to find an ancient Spain, where roman soldiers with the faces of Maya peasants interpret for days a choral rite alive in the collective memory as a matter of chronicle. In theatrical scenery of Antigua, between colonial palaces and Baroque churches uncovered by frequent earthquakes and eruptions of nearby volcanoes, processions come one after the other in an increasingly spasmodic crescendo until Holy Friday. From dawn to sunset for thousands of penitents, curucuchos rigorously dressed in purple, is a privilege, often passed down from father to son, to load on the shoulders heavy groups of statues with Jesus Christ, God, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary.
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  • Indian young farmer in Mexico City agricoltural area. More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth ? Mexico City.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre): Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week.
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  • Day of the Dead celebrations are held in veneration of the dead from sunset until sunrise the following day with candlelight in the cemetery.
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  • Day of the Dead celebrations, Patzcuaro. The market sells ?calaveras?, skulls of sugar.  Day of the Dead, Janitzio island, the cemetery. The celebrations are held from sunset until sunrise the following day. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an ?oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,? is one of Mexico's most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in the state of Michoacan. During prehispanic times, Patzcuaro's lake was thought to be an important entrance to the ?Inframundo? - the Indian Underworld. During Dia de Muertos, the Inframundo's doors open, and the souls of the departed return to earth to visit their earth-bound family and friends. At night in the small graveyard on Janitzio Island, illuminated only by a sea of candles, Purepecha women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive.
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  • Juchitàn, Vela San Isidro Labrador. The tehuanas are the archetype of an ancient and legendary Mexico, told in the murales of Diego Rivera and impersonated also by Frida Kalho that often wore these traditional dresses. But these showy dresses, and the rich golden ornaments that accompany them, are above all an instrument of auto-representatiom for these active women which the control of the local markets confers an independent economic power that is reflected in the self confidence. Even in the development of the festivities, where the women often dance a lot among them while the men remain seated watching.
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  • Juchitàn, Vela San Isidro Labrador. Holy Mass in St Vicente Ferrer church.
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  • Holy Week. After the last battle the Evils forces, the Judea, are killed by the Capitanes that struggle to defend Jesus Christ against the ?Jews?, the devil's militia looking for Jesus Christ to kill him. Violence is a essential part of the ceremonies and somebody can be killed in the struggles with wood swords. Coras are a small indigenous people living scattered in the mountains of the Mexican state of Nayarit . They still follows their traditions, protecting in a very strong way their secret rites, that anthropologists believe the most interesting of Central America for their synchretism. The Holy Week, the most important religious event of the year, is characterized with impressive ceremonies.
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  • Sta Teresa del Nayar (Nayarit). At the sunrise, near the house of Black Centurion, the ?borrados? (the painted men) prepares vegetal colours with ash and honey. Coras are a small indigenous people living scattered in the mountains of Sierra Madre Central in Mexican state of Nayarit. The Coras still follows their traditions, protecting in a strong way their secret rites, that anthropologists believe the most interesting of Central America for their synchretism. The Holy Week, the most important religious event of the year, is characterized with impressive ceremonies. The catholic priest doesn't partecipate and the Black Centurion is the captain of Judea, the ?Jews?, the devil's militia looking for Jesus Christ to kill him. Violence is a essential part of the ceremonies and somebody can be killed in the struggles with wood swords.
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  • Outer Hebrides, Benbecula. Father Jain MacAskill of Free Church preaching in gaelic in a pub.
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  • The Merry Cemetery (Cimitirul Vesel in Romanian) of S?pân?a, Maramure? county, is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing in an original and poetic manner, the life of the local people buried there with scenes from their lives and work. The Merry Cemetery, now an open-air museum, is linked to the name of the local artist Stan Ioan P?tra? who in 1935 sculpted the first tombstone cross. In 1960s, more than 800 of such oak wood crosses came into this unusual cemetery.
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  • Faraoani village, Forrovalva i Hungarian, the cemetery. In the back the old church, practically the only one traditional csango church surviving today.
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  • Holy Sepulcre church.
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  • Holy Sepulcre. Franciscans friars near Jesus Christ tomb.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
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  • Islamic Cairo. Allah's name graved in the stone.
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  • Qalaat Semân, St. Simeon Basylica (473 A.C.). The stump of the stylite's column, once 18 meters high, is the focal point of the great structure built to commemorate the saint.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • maronite monastery in Lebanon's northern mountains. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Beirut Maronite worker in a textile factory. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • The church of Santa Maria e San Donato is known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and is said to contain the relics of Saint Donatus of Arezzo as well as large bones behind the altar said to be the bones of a dragon slain by the saint.
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  • Lourdes, the main church. Lourdes is one of the most famous pilgrimage sites of the Christianity.
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  • Lourdes, the main church. Lourdes is one of the most famous pilgrimage sites of the Christianity.
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  • Bethlehem, nativity church, nativity church.
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  • Bethlehem, nativity church.
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  • Mar Saba. The greek orthodox monastery stands in complete isolation in the middle of the Judean desert. The monastery is built near the cave where St sabs began his ascetic life in 478 A.D. Pilgrims. The women may only view the monastery from outside.
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  • Mar Saba. The greek orthodox monastery stands in complete isolation in the middle of the Judean desert. The monastery is built near the cave where St sabs began his ascetic life in 478 A.D.
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  • Mar Saba. The greek orthodox monastery stands in complete isolation in the middle of the Judean desert. The monastery is built near the cave where St sabs began his ascetic life in 478 A.D.
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  • Mar Saba. The greek orthodox monastery stands in complete isolation in the middle of the Judean desert. The monastery is built near the cave where St sabs began his ascetic life in 478 A.D.
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  • Nebi Musa, is a Moslim holy place in the Judean desert between Jericho and Jerusalem. The building which marks the Mausoleum of Moses is located where once the pilgrims could look Mount Nebo, where the tomb of Moses was thought to be located. Mamluk sultan Baibars  built a small shrine (1269 A.D.) here, gradually the lookout point  was confused with Moses' tomb itself, increasing for the Islam  the religious importance Nabi Musa.
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  • Nebi Musa, is a Moslim holy place in the Judean desert between Jericho and Jerusalem. The building which marks the Mausoleum of Moses is located where once the pilgrims could look Mount Nebo, where the tomb of Moses was thought to be located. Mamluk sultan Baibars  built a small shrine (1269 A.D.) here, gradually the lookout point  was confused with Moses' tomb itself, increasing for the Islam  the religious importance Nabi Musa.
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  • Nebi Musa, is a Moslim holy place in the Judean desert between Jericho and Jerusalem. The building which marks the Mausoleum of Moses is located where once the pilgrims could look Mount Nebo, where the tomb of Moses was thought to be located. Mamluk sultan Baibars  built a small shrine (1269 A.D.) here, gradually the lookout point  was confused with Moses' tomb itself, increasing for the Islam  the religious importance Nabi Musa.
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  • Nebi Musa, is a Moslim holy place in the Judean desert between Jericho and Jerusalem. The building which marks the Mausoleum of Moses is located where once the pilgrims could look Mount Nebo, where the tomb of Moses was thought to be located. Mamluk sultan Baibars  built a small shrine (1269 A.D.) here, gradually the lookout point  was confused with Moses' tomb itself, increasing for the Islam  the religious importance Nabi Musa.
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  • Wadi Sodom, a desert area near Dead sea's south end. Mt Sodom is the Biblical site of the city of Sodom, that God resolved to strike down for sexual promiscuity.
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