This page groups sacred sites by how active they still are as pilgrimage destinations. Wikipedia notes that Santiago de Compostela "remains a significant pilgrimage site, with around 200,000 pilgrims, both secular and Christian, completing the numerous pilgrimage routes to the cathedral in 2012 alone." Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a heavily visited pilgrimage site apart from one now visited only rarely.
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What Defines This GroupingTemples, altars and precincts of Roman public cult, in which religion was a civic and legal act performed by magistrates on the state's behalf and correctness of procedure mattered more than inward belief. Roman cult travelled with the empire and absorbed local gods by identifying them with its own rather than by replacing them. 2 Learn More
Sacred sites of ancient Rome
This group holds the sacred sites of ancient Roman religion, the temples, altars and sacred precincts of the Roman state cult and its many gods. Roman sacred architecture spread across the empire, from the temples of the Capitol to provincial sanctuaries.
The browser will find the temples and religious monuments of the Roman world. The entries describe each site's deity and function, treating them as remains of a historical religion.
Pilgrimage attested historically; not continuing
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Religions of Rome, Volume 1: A History
Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price, Cambridge University Press, 1998View the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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