Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Island pilgrimage church reached by ninety-nine stone steps, with a legendary wishing bell.
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This guide to the Church of the Assumption on Bled Island follows a legend told on Lake Bled for centuries: a young widow in Bled Castle, a husband lost to robbers, and the bell she paid for with her own gold and silver. It reaches from Rome to a foundry in Padua, and to the year the French came for the island's bells. Best heard inside the church, under the turret above the nave.
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