Only sacred places promote welfare and bring happiness. Sins are washed off, there. People who are agonised by worldly agonies get peace there. The modern man has developed hill stations but nowhere can man get the peace that sacred places offer. Hill stations cannot liberate you from sins.
Sacred places make the present life and the subsequent lives happy.
A site may be sacred because of an event that took place at that spot, perhaps a vision or the healing of some person. Other sites may be associated with the keeping of relics. A site may be regarded as sacred because of what it represents, a cathedral as an important site for a prticular faith. Some places have become sacred for other reasons. Stones circles and standing stones are sacred, even though we cannot be certain of their meaning to those who were responsible for their erection.