The Mariazell Basilica, which rises in the heart of the Styrian mountains some 70 km east of Vienna, is the main spiritual center of the Catholic populations of the Danube area. Every year, it welcomes nearly a million pilgrims: Austrians, but also Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Croatians, and Slovenians.
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