Sparta, Greece
7t
Sparta, Greece
1400 BCE
Zakros, Greece
1900 BC
Troizinia-Methana, Greece
7th century BCE
Corfu, Greece
600 BCE
Noto, Italy
8th century BCE
Kritsa, Greece
400-300 BC
Syracuse, Italy
402-397 BCE
Gela, Italy
8th century BCE
Achaea, Greece
1300 BCE
Embonas, Greece
3000-1000 BCE
Corinth, Greece
2000 BCE
Poros, Greece
520 BCE
Arcadia, Greece
4th century BCE
Capo Colonna, Italy
480-440 BCE
Vai, Greece
700 BC
Augusta, Italy
728 BCE
Aidone, Italy
5th century BCE
San Giuseppe Jato, Italy
6th century BC
Lemnos, Greece
500 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.