Elis, Greece
8th century BCE
Lindos, Greece
10th century BCE
Athens, Greece
144 AD
Syracuse, Italy
5th century BC
Argos-Mykines, Greece
1600-1100 BCE
Rhodes, Greece
3rd century BCE
Capaccio Paestum, Italy
550-450 BCE
Corinth, Greece
9th century BCE
Epidaurus, Greece
4th century BCE
Syracuse, Italy
6th century BCE
Nesebar, Bulgaria
6th century BCE
Marseille, France
6th century BCE
Athens, Greece
2700 BCE
Calatafimi-Segesta, Italy
420 BCE
Ohrid, North Macedonia
200 BCE
Syracuse, Italy
3rd century BCE
Taranto, Italy
6th
Athens, Greece
c. 116 AD
Lindos, Greece
4th century BCE
Calatafimi-Segesta, Italy
3rd century BCE
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.