Category

Relics & Holy Objects

Contested, venerated, still drawing crowds.

2 destinations

4/5 Significance

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

Journey's end for a million pilgrims, where an eighty-kilogram censer swings the width of the transept.

4/5 · Major biblical site

3/5 Significance

Turin, Italy

Turin Cathedral and the Shroud

A 4.4-metre linen bearing the faint front-and-back image of a crucified man — the most studied object in the world.

3/5 · Well attested