Pilgrimage Sites Dedicated to Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Trakai
Lithuania · Europe
Trakai hosts the miraculous Trakai Mother of God icon, crowned by Pope Clement XI in 1718—the first Marian image in Lithuania so honored.
Matera
Italy · Europe
Ancient city of cave dwellings and over 150 rupestrian churches, whose biblical landscape drew filmmakers from Pasolini to Mel Gibson to portray the Holy Land.
Rankweil
Austria · Europe
Vorarlberg's principal Marian sanctuary where pilgrims climb Liebfrauenberg to venerate a healing Madonna.
Máriagyűd
Hungary · Europe
Southern Hungary's most-visited Marian shrine: a Baroque basilica at the foot of the Tenkes hill, southern end of the Magyar Zarándokút.