Religious Tourism’s Impact on City Space: Service Zones around Sanctuaries

Pilgrimage centers are important elements of the spatial structure cities and simultaneously factors influencing their transformations. The pilgrimage function sanctuaries can lead to development service zones around them focused mainly on serving visitors, i.e., pilgrims tourists. They often perform functions complementary sanctuaries. Here we present results studies sanctuary conducted at twenty six popular Catholic in Europe. In this paper, discussed influence city space macro, meso micro scales. We proposed a definition zone, developed model approach different types: initial (slightly developed) zones, dispersed (integrated into urban space, with coexisting other functions), compact zones—linear, or districts (with dominating function). depends rank center, as well period which it was founded, traditions, location center city. This paper is continuation extension research impact transformations context socio-cultural changes 20th 21st centuries.