The 11 medieval mono­lith­ic cave church­es of this 13th-cen­­tu­ry ‘New Jerusalem‘ are sit­u­at­ed in a moun­tain­ous region in the heart of Ethiopia near a tra­di­tion­al vil­lage with cir­cu­lar-shaped dwellings. Lal­i­bela is a high place of Ethiopi­an Chris­tian­i­ty, still today a place of pilmi­grage and devo­tion.