basilica
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The rue Lepic, the steep 1-kilometer stretch that punches up through the 18th arrondissement and leads the peloton toward the Sacré-Coeur basilica, is a more recent addition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Visitors from around the world are drawn to the scale and strangeness of the basilica.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Framed by white roses on the central balcony of the Vatican's basilica, the pope called on "those who have the power to unleash wars" to choose peace.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
During this rather quiet time of year, the basilica usually sees 1,000 visitors per day on weekdays, rising to 4,000 on weekends.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
But what you cannot do in the basilica is speak or sing quickly: it would come out as gobbledegook.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
The major basilicas have a particular connection to the Pope.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025
With their crystalline mosaics and thin, pure light, these humbly elegant basilicas conjure the time when a strange, fervent, unyielding new cult rose from the ashes of empire.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
That includes getting out into the city’s basilicas with the Santa Cecilia chorus with the sacred repertoire, like the Mozart Requiem.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
In bordering Umbria, thousands more were damaged when small churches and large basilicas crumbled.
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022
She made me spend upon the cold stone porches of the basilicas all the time that I was not engaged plying my needle.
From The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter by Sue, Eugène
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