UNESCO yakadoma nhevedzano yenzvimbo dzakabatana neyakaongororwa nhoroondo yevaKristu muzana ramakore regumi nenomwe kusvika muzana rechigumi nenomwe Japan senzvimbo yenyika yechi16 yeNyika Yetsika Yemagariro. Iyo "saiti" inoumbwa nemisha gumi kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweKyushu, pamwe nematongo eHara Castle - yakatanga kuvakwa nemaPutukezi - neSt. Mary's Cathedral yeIye Immaculate Conception muguta reNagasaki.
Nekuti tsika yechiKristu yairambidzwa muJapan kusvika 1873, maKristu (anozivikanwa saKakure Kirishitan) akanamata - uye mamishinari akaparadzira evhangeri - muchivande. Ndiyo "nzvimbo dzakavanzika" dzemachechi ari kumahombekombe egungwa e "maChristian" misha uye zvitsuwa zvakasarudzika izvo zviri chikamu chikuru chekuzivikanwa kweUNESCO. Matongo eHara Castle chimwe chinhu, sezvo chaishandiswa nevaPutukezi neDutch mamishinari.
Imwe yemienzaniso inooneka kwazvo yezita reUNESCO ndeyaNagasaki yeRoma Katurike St. Mary's Cathedral - inozivikanwawo seChedhedral yeIye Immaculate Conception - yakavakwa muna 1914 mushure mekurambidzwa kwechiKristu kubviswa. Kereke yekutanga yakaparadzwa nebhomba reatomiki rakadonha paNagasaki muna Nyamavhuvhu 1945 uye mufananidzo wekutanga wakatsaurwa muna 1959. Zvifananidzo nezvigadzirwa zvakakuvadzwa pakabhomba, kusanganisira bhero reAngel Angelus, zvave kuratidzwa panzvimbo (uye pa iyo Cathedral yeiyo Yakachena Conception). Iyo Peace Park iri padyo ine zvisaririra zvemadziro epakutanga ehedhedral. Chechi yeOura imwe chechi yeKaturike muNagasaki. Yakavakwa kusvika kumagumo eEdo Period muna 1864 nemumishinari wechiFrance kunharaunda iri kukura yevatengesi vekunze muguta, inoonekwa seye yekare chechi yechiKristu yakamira muJapan uye imwe yehupfumi hwepasirese hwenyika.
Nhoroondo, Nagasaki yaive yakareba nzira yekutanga yekupinda kwevatorwa kuJapan. Yakanga iri muNagasaki muna 1859, mushure mekunge United States 'Commodore Perry ashandisa kudyidzana kwebhoti nepfuti kukumbira kupera kweanopfuura makore mazana maviri mutemo wekuJapan wekuzviparadzanisa, kuti vamiriri vanobva kunyika dzepasirese vakauya kuzodaidzira kuti chiteshi chivhurwe kushambadzira. Mushure mezvo, Emperor Meiji akazivisa Nagasaki chiteshi chemahara muna 200. Uye yaive Nagasaki ndiyo yaive mamiriro enhoroondo yaJohn Luther Long ya1859, Madame Butterfly, iyo, muna 1898, yakashandurwa ikave opera naGiacomo Puccini, uye inoramba iri imwe yenyika opera anodikanwa.
