The author discusses in this study pilgrimages to numerous places of pilgrimage in the Mediterranean as well as in the Slovene hinterland and more removed inland regions. Pilgrimages to Rome and to places with wellknown, churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary prevailed, what should be linked with spreading of the myth about purgatory, with the coult of the mediatress Virgin Mary, and so on. Motives for pilgrimages in the hinterland should be also sought in a great economic and ethnical link of Piran with these areas. Among pilgrims, who belonged to various social classes, a great number of Slovene inhabitants of Piran in also mentioned. There were different causes for pilgrimages however in the second half of the 15th century the practice to hire a man for pilgrimage and to pay for his pilgrimage, completly prevailed. Pilgrims from Piran wholly followed the pulse of the spiritual life in Europe, the new ideas in the Christian teachings, and they also accepted fragments of the newly appearing profane culture.