The Abbey of Montserrat is a place in the mountains of the province of Barcelona, in Spain, with a history that goes back a millennium. Between tourists and pilgrims, an average of three million people arrive each year; the number represents three-quarters of the foreign tourists who visited Peru in 2017. This level of attention is explained not only by the geological vagaries of the landscape, with standing rocks that simulate agglomerated friars and the architectural monumentality of the Benedictine monastery with its vertical arches, but also because La Moreneta, the black Virgin who is the patron saint of Catalonia, is preserved there. A book by the poet César Vallejo is also kept there.

The Pontin plains are located in the center of the Italian peninsula, on the Tyrrhenian coast, in the Latina province of the Lazio region. The coastal plains and their wetlands surround mountains and rocky promontories of low altitude and abrupt conformation that project towards the sea. The symbolic dimension of these mountains is linked to mythical figures of the Greco-Roman world, such as the hero Ulysses, the god Jupiter and the sorceress Circe. Mount Sant´ Angelo that dominates the city of Terracina has at its top the ruins of an important Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter (or Venus) that was reused as a monastery by Benedictine monks. For its part, the Circeo massif offers at its summit the remains of a small temple, which is associated with the figure of the mythical sorceress Circe, which is said to have seduced and retained Ulysses, turning his companions into pigs. The morphol...

The Pontin plains are located in the center of the Italian peninsula, on the Tyrrhenian coast, in the Latina province of the Lazio region. The coastal plains and their wetlands surround mountains and rocky promontories of low altitude and abrupt conformation that project towards the sea. The symbolic dimension of these mountains is linked to mythical figures of the Greco-Roman world, such as the hero Ulysses, the god Jupiter and the sorceress Circe. Mount Sant´ Angelo that dominates the city of Terracina has at its top the ruins of an important Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter (or Venus) that was reused as a monastery by Benedictine monks. For its part, the Circeo massif offers at its summit the remains of a small temple, which is associated with the figure of the mythical sorceress Circe, which is said to have seduced and retained Ulysses, turning his companions into pigs. The morphol...

The Pontin plains are located in the center of the Italian peninsula, on the Tyrrhenian coast, in the Latina province of the Lazio region. The coastal plains and their wetlands surround mountains and rocky promontories of low altitude and abrupt conformation that project towards the sea. The symbolic dimension of these mountains is linked to mythical figures of the Greco-Roman world, such as the hero Ulysses, the god Jupiter and the sorceress Circe. Mount Sant´ Angelo that dominates the city of Terracina has at its top the ruins of an important Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter (or Venus) that was reused as a monastery by Benedictine monks. For its part, the Circeo massif offers at its summit the remains of a small temple, which is associated with the figure of the mythical sorceress Circe, which is said to have seduced and retained Ulysses, turning his companions into pigs. The morphol...