Sentences with phrase «sacred city which»

Our final train journey of the tour takes us to Varanasi, the Hindu's sacred city which attracts thousands of pilgrims a year, and is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.

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It was performed during the festival of Dionysus, which was a fertility festival, of course, but only because it was also an apotropaic celebration of delirium and death: the Dionysia was a sacred negotiation with the wild, antinomian cruelty of the god whose violent orgiastic cult had once, so it was believed, gravely imperiled the city; and the hope that prompted the feast was that, if this devastating force could be contained within bright Apollonian forms and propitiated through a ritual carnival of controlled disorder, the polis could survive for another year, its precarious peace intact.

Our purpose was to encourage New York City to give permanent recognition to its Muslim community by adding two holidays observed by Muslims to the public school calendar: Eid ul - Fitr, which celebrates the end of Ramadan, the sacred month of fasting and Eid Ul - Adha, which celebrates the end of the Hajj, the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca.

This tells of his birth and childhood and his life in the sacred city of Ayodhya, from which after a court intrigue he was banished to a forest.

A sense of the sacred, celebration of the liturgy, wonder and gratitude: these are the things in which we need to be re-educated not justfor the joy of living in an enchanted «Liturgical City» but because it is the only way to keep our education humane and our life civilised.

a.m.: Excursion to the Incan City of Machupicchu; Wonder of the World, which presents a set of living quarters, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the  «Intiwatana» (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, in a remarkable urban harmony, showing the Incan engineeringÂ's high development level.

At present, it is staged in several sacred places of the city of Cusco, the main one being the Esplanade of Saqsaywaman, in an impressive artistic display, with beautiful choreographies and costumes which give a special touch to the Sanctuary of Saqsaywaman which is visited every 24th of June, by a multitude of Cusco's inhabitants, as well as by a great number of foreign and national visitors who give a higher level to the Íncas» most important festivity.

The hotel is located in the heart of Belém on Avenida Nazaré, along which the Círio de Nazaré procession passes, and near the city's main tourist attractions, such as the Estação das Docas, Ver - o - Peso Market, Presépio Fort, Pará museum of sacred art and Paz Theater.

a.m.: Excursion to the Incan City of Machupicchu; Wonder of the World, which presents a set of living quarters, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory and clock), sacred temples and benched terraces, in an admirable urban harmony, demonstrating the Incan engineering's high development level.

Guided tour of the Incan City of Machupicchu, Wonder of the World, which presents a set of living quarters, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the «Intiwatana» (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, in a remarkable urban harmony, showing the Incan engineering's high development level.

After lunch and coffee break, you will visit the sacred monkey sanctuary which is located in the middle of Ubud city.

After breakfast, visit one of the most sacred Buddhist shrines in the world — the temple, which houses the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha and also take a City tour in Kandy.

By following the road to Antigua Guatemala you will find that the city is surrounded by volcanoes which are considered sacred by the Maya as the living creatures believe that can be used to communicate with spirits and ancestors.

Tracing their travels to Mecca, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Senegal, the photos seek to uncover and engage with the particular and unstable memories of each location — the birthplace of Islam in Mecca, inaccessible to most non-believers, and now paved over with parking lots and luxury hotel chains; the sacred sites of Jerusalem, fought over, destroyed and restored time and again for centuries; the ostensibly liberal cities of Western Europe, where paranoia, surveillance and religious profiling are becoming the new normal; and Dakar, where the legacies of slavery and colonialism gave rise to unique Islamic identities and practices, which are increasingly under assault by globalizing forces.