Kategorie

Cultural

Land

Ethiopia

Einschreibungsjahr

1978

Kriterien

(i)(ii)(iii)

UNESCO-ID

18

Beschreibung

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.