642 KMS northward from the capital, Hundreds of miles to the south and east of Axum are another ancient settlement chronologically, Lalibela; it is also famous for its architecture. Lalibela is a city carved from legend - a medieval settlement in the highlands of Lasta area of Wollo that is the site of eleven remarkable rock-hewn monolithic churches, believed to have been built by king Lalibela in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. These notable structures are curved inside and outside of the solid rock, and are consider among the wonders of the world. Each building is architecturally unique, and several of them are decorated with fascinating rock paintings. The unadulterated biblical atmosphere and vivid local color of the charismas celebrations provide an ideal opportunity to see Lalibela as sacred centre whose roots go back to man's very earliest years.
The most impressive Churches of Lalibela, which are carved out of soft red volcanic tuff rock on which they stand. The mysterious churches where some lie completely hidden in deep trenches and the others standing in quarried caves are complex in architecture and concept.
