At the Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Bogota’s Candy Cane Church

People in Bogota cross themselves. A lot. And not only when I was passing by or when they were passing by me.

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1000 Year-Old Church of Saint-Dalmas-du-Plan in Valdeblore – Notebook and 17 Images

And a brief tale of a beheaded martyr who crossed.a river carrying his head before he died.

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10 Images from the Entrevaux Cathedral

This stunning blue ceiling towers over the altar in the Gothic Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption in Entrevaux, France, a town of about 900 in the southern French Alps about 50km north of Nice.

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Slovenia Day Trips: 35 Minutes in Svetina, With an Introduction to Alma Karlin

Svetina, a small settlement in Slovenia’s eastern Styria region just south of Štore, is known regionally for two things: its parish church which dates back to at least the early 15th century, and as the final resting place for Alma Karlin, Slovenia’s most renowned female traveler of the early years of the 20th century.

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