2016 Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range - minor boundary modification - Maps of the inscribed property including the modified components The Nomination files produced by the ...

It is the only river section of the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range, which are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. An opening ceremony was held on March 1 ...

Set in the dense forests of the Kii Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, three sacred sites – Yoshino and Omine, Kumano Sanzan, Koyasan – linked by pilgrimage routes to the ancient capital cities ...

Despite our secularising world, pilgrimage is enjoying a boom not seen ... Back in the Middle Ages Irish pilgrims would head ...