This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). People seeking a spiritual escape often instinctively make for far-flung places: to the ashrams of India, the ayahuasca retreats of the ...

Hemmed by white sand beaches and a bright blue sea, Scotland's Iona pulses on the Atlantic's horizon, where it has captured the imagination of spiritual seekers for centuries, ever since Irish monk ...

The Benedictine abbey on the Hebridean island reopens tomorrow after a £3m renovation funded by bake sales and sponsored walks A Christian community on a tiny Hebridean island which for centuries has ...

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IT’S a “sacred” island and one of the great pilgrimage destinations of modern Christianity. And yesterday leading politicians from Scotland and Ireland met to celebrate the 1,450th anniversary of the ...

For me, pilgrimage begins with the Isle of Iona. I started going there with my parents in the earliest days of childhood. We traveled from the heart of landlocked Perthshire: as the crow flies it’s a ...