Sentence examples for pilgrim route from inspiring English sources

The city also lies astride the historic pilgrim route from Senegal to Mecca.

Both towns were important stations on the pilgrim route to Medina from Iraq and Iran (Persia).

I have just walked for two weeks through southern France to northern Spain, along the pilgrim route.

She was an exchange student from Canada, and had just walked the pilgrim route from Bilbao to Santiago de Compostela and was now taking the train back.

This month, New Yorkers can embark on the Grand Tour — the cultural pilgrim route through Europe that was once an essential part of a civilized education — without boarding a steamship.

Hāʾil subsequently grew as a result of its direct contact with the Ottoman government and its control of the principal pilgrim route from the east until it rivaled Riyadh in importance and influence.

Some of the common pilgrim routes, where the symbolic stoning of Satan takes place for example, were devoid of any water supplies other than the presence of young policemen occasionally squirting random pilgrims' faces with water.

The replica is adorned with sitaras, beautifully embroidered silk curtains that hang in the real Kaaba, and is surrounded by maps and archeological objects tracking historical pilgrim routes to Mecca from far-flung places like Timbuktu and Malaysia.

In 1071 the Seljuq Turks defeated the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert, displaced the Egyptians as masters of the Holy Land, and cut the pilgrim routes, thus stimulating the Crusades.

Others suppose the historical facts were retrieved much later by poets wishing to celebrate certain heroes, many of whom were associated with pilgrim routes that the jongleurs could then ply with profit.

A dozen or so other visitor sites covering different aspects of local heritage will be linked by existing paths and roads, new routes and remodelled pathways such as the pilgrim routes, canal paths and cycle ways.