Máriapócs

The tiny town of Máriapócs is an important place of pilgrimage. Devotees are drawn to a gorgeous Greek Catholic church, which houses the Weeping Black Madonna, an enormous and unbelievably ornate iconostasis that now takes pride of place above the altar.

Pope John Paul II hurried here in 1991 to pay homage to the miraculous image but what was surely known to him - and not to others at the time - is that this icon is not the original, but a 19th-century copy. The real one is kept in St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.