Collections
Browse sacred site types before you browse individual places.
These collections turn recurring sacred-travel patterns into explicit browse lanes instead of leaving them buried across unrelated place profiles.
Site types
Five site-type lanes are now live
These hubs now come from a typed taxonomy instead of one-off route pages, which makes the collection layer reusable across place, journey, and hub surfaces.
Sacred mountains
Sacred mountains
Use mountain collections when ascent, sacred topography, and shrine or temple presence matter as much as the destination itself.
Journeys
Start with the strongest route already live
Places
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Pilgrimage cities
Pilgrimage cities
Use city collections when shrine clusters, sacred streets, and layered devotional neighborhoods are stronger than one isolated monument.
Places
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Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church
A Canterbury city route linking cathedral worship, abbey ruins, and the long parish life of St Martin's.
Churches and Convents of Goa
Old Goa's Christian monument ensemble, where basilicas, cathedrals, chapels, convent ruins, and relic devotion form a connected pilgrimage landscape.
Lumbini
The Buddha birthplace landscape where the Maya Devi precinct, Ashokan witness, gardens, monasteries, and pilgrim practice meet.
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Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl's historic centre, where Orthodox churches and monastery routes structure the city core.
Monastic islands
Monastic islands
Use island-monastery collections when enclosure, water, and a bounded religious landscape define the sacred experience.
Places
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Monastic Island of Reichenau
Reichenau turns three medieval churches, island setting, Benedictine memory, and early medieval art into one Lake Constance sacred route.
Mount Athos
A guarded Orthodox monastic peninsula where monasteries, sketes, boat access, worship rule, and restricted entry define the Holy Mountain.
Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands
A northern Orthodox island ensemble where Solovetsky Monastery gathers walls, cathedral, churches, and sea-bound remoteness.
Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region
A Munakata World Heritage landscape centered on Okinoshima, associated reefs, and shrine sites that ordinary visitors approach from outside the island.
Solovetsky Monastery
Island walls, Orthodox worship, and difficult memory in one northern monastery ensemble.
Okinoshima
A protected sacred island where Shinto continuity is encountered mainly through distance.
Holy wells
Holy wells
Use water-centered collections when springs, healing waters, and devotional stopping places matter more than monumental scale.
Places
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Rock-cut sanctuaries
Rock-cut sanctuaries
Use rock-cut collections when cave carving, cliff-side devotion, and excavated sacred space define the route logic.
Journeys
Start with the strongest route already live
Ajanta Painted Vihara Circuit
A cliffside Buddhist route through Ajanta's major painted monastery caves, with shrine rooms, narrative walls, and monastic halls held together as one sacred circuit.
Ajanta Chaitya Hall Route
An Ajanta route that follows the cliff sanctuary through its chaitya halls, giving stupa-centered worship space its own sequence beside the painted monastery caves.
Places
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Ajanta Caves
Painted Buddhist cave interiors set into a horseshoe-shaped cliff route.
Dambulla Cave Temple
A living Buddhist cave-shrine complex where painted ceilings, Buddha images, offerings, and cave sequence guide ritual movement.
Seokguram Grotto
A granite Buddhist grotto where monumental Buddha, domed chamber, guardians, and mountain-edge setting focus one sanctuary space.
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The taxonomy can expand from here
The next site-type slices can deepen these five lanes into fuller browse surfaces without reopening route intake or adding new one-off templates.