Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Points 100
Region Ethiopia, Africa
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The 11 medieval monolithic cave churches of this 13th-century ‘New Jerusalem’ are situated in a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia near a traditional village with circular-shaped dwellings. Lalibela is a high place of Ethiopian Christianity, still today a place of pilmigrage and devotion.

Year of Inscription: 1978

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