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Pilgrimage & Heritage

What endures in stone
returns in pilgrimage

Estimated annual visitors to the monolithic churches, by historical era

0 50K 100K 150K 200K 5.2K 1300 8.4K 1500 3.8K 1700 12.6K 1900 34K 1978 Heritage register 86K 2000 210K 2024
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