Sentences with phrase «sacred pilgrimage centre»

Cahuachi, the author concludes, was not a mere town, but rather a pre-Columbian equivalent of Delphi in the Classical world — that is, a politically neutral and sacred pilgrimage centre.

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Aman Tokyo's birds - eye perch above the city centre offers a serene window onto urban dynamism, while the ancient tradition of thermal springs is embraced by Amanemu, set within Ise Shima National Park near ancient pilgrimage routes and Japan's most sacred Shinto shrines.