Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
Good to know
- Best time to go
- June–October
- Budget
- $
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
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.
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