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The present Cathedral of Crema stands on the site of an earlier church, which was destroyed in 1160 by the army of Emperor Frederick I (1155-1190). Reconstruction began in 1284 and was completed in 1341. The façade is a typical example of Lombard Gothic. Above the main door are three statues of the Virgin and Child, St. Pantaleon and St. John the Baptist. In the central part of the façade, there is a large window with a marble rosette. The façade is crowned by a marble loggia. A campanile is attached to the eastern part of the cathedral.

Cremona Cathedral, built between 1107 and 1491, is a vast Romanesque temple with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque elements. Inside it preserves remarkable masterpieces of sculpture and painting, including the "Arca dei martiri persiani", the tomb of the Persian martyrs (Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abachum), martyred in Rome in the 3rd century.

Originally, Notre-Dame de Créteil Cathedral was built by the architect Charles-Gustave Stoskopf and inaugurated in 1976. But the building, too small and too buried in the urban fabric, required an architectural overhaul. Thus, on 20 September 2015, the new, larger and more visible building, created by the Architecture-Studio agency and replacing the old one destroyed in 2013, was inaugurated. The plan was designed as a continuation of the old Stoskopf building.

The second largest community from the Sibiu Chair (former administrative unit) brought important changes to the initial Romanesque church: in the 14th century a polygonal chancel flanked by two side chapels was added and the master-builder Andreas Lapicida coordinated the rising of the side aisles and the substitution of the central nave’s arcades by piers. A late Gothic vault was unfurled over the central nave. The Romanesque western tower was heightened through the annexation of a defence floor, which was later on replaced by the present tower roof. The double defense wall encloses a small outer ward, which was completed on the northern side with a forecourt around 1550. The impressive inner furnishing dates back to the 18th century and is dominated by the richly decorated Baroque altar from 1729. Cristian is one of the first three villages to be repopulated starting with 1756, after the plague had decimated the residents, through the colonization of protestants – Landlers – forcefully sent in from

The bell tower is the only remainder of the former Gothic basilica, which was entirely demolished in 1839 and replaced by today’s neoclassical hall church. A pointed spire and four corner turrets were built on the tower in 1803. Its portal and the rose window originate from an earlier construction phase. Pairs of pillars that support the domical vaults segment the church’s interior. The altar and the pulpit were built at the same time as the church. The assembly is still surrounded by a double deneustadt_i_b2_inschrift1fence wall, which was constructed, enlarged and endowed with nine defence towers across more than three centuries. Only eight towers still stand today. Another remarkable building in Cristan is the neoclassical parish house opposite to the church, as well as the community center from 1926/1927 featuring a curve roof, called „Zollinger roof“ after the name of its inventor.

The neo-classical hall church with chancel and western bell tower was built between 1810 and 1813, after the collapse of the initial construction, first mentioned in documents from 1270. But there is no information concerning the aspect of this former church. It is, though, supposed to have been represented in a drawing on one of the church’s pews, dated 1793. The interior hosts the altar with organ gallery, the pulpit and the font, which were made partially at the same time with the construction itself, but also in 1822. Only the ring wall and four defensive towers are still preserved from the 15th century fortification system, while the fifth tower collapsed in 1925 and was never rebuilt. On the southern side, next to the former kennel, only the ruins of the old Saxon school still exist today.

Parish Church of St. Mary, which is mentioned as early as the XV. century, was at the end of the XVIII. st. renewed and expanded.

Church of St. Stjepan Prvomucenika, a Roman Catholic sacral building erected in 1814 on the Sustipan peninsula in Split on the site of the famous demolished Benedictine monastery of St. Stephen under the pines. During the construction, the exterior of the ruined monastery was built on its facade, and the interior was decorated with six ancient marble pillars transferred from Diocletian's Palace, as well as the marble altar of St. Ana delivered from the extinguished female Benedictine monastery of St. Marie de Taurello.

Salona began its history centuries before the birth of Christ as an important port and market town on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea. The first formation in the city surely thanks Greek merchants and colonists. It came under Roman rule probably in 78 or 77. B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar elevated it to the level of a Roman colony. It then developed into the administrative, economic and financial center of Illyricum and a large port city, comparable to the then most important cities on the Adriatic coast: Aquileia and Ravenna.

Found on top of Croagh Patrick Mountain, also known as the Reek, this Calvary church has stunning views over the surrounding landscape. The mountain itself has both a Pagan and Christian history, and is climbed by pilgrims each year on Reek Sunday (the last Sunday in July).