Mariazell

Austria's most significant Catholic pilgrimage site, Mariazell is a small Styrian mountain village whose Basilica of the Nativity of Mary houses a lime-wood statue of the Virgin, known as the Magna Mater Austriae, reputed to work miracles. The statue arrived in 1157; the large baroque church enclosing its chapel was built in 1644, expanding an earlier structure raised by Louis I of Hungary after his 1363 victory over the Ottoman Empire. The village also serves as a winter sports base in the north Styrian Alps.

• Population1,254
• Nearest water0.4 km
• Nearest mountain1.1 km
• UNESCO within 50 km7