Lipari, Italy
4th century BCE
Argos-Mykines, Greece
4th century BCE
Elis, Greece
4th century BCE
Catanzaro, Italy
4th century BCE
Thasos, Greece
6th century BCE
Thasos, Greece
6th century BCE
Cattolica Eraclea, Italy
6th century BCE
Corfu, Greece
580 BCE
Termini Imerese, Italy
5th century BC
Ierapetra, Greece
1700 BC
Kandanos Selinos, Greece
400 BC
Lecc, Italy
8th century BCE
East Mani, Greece
5th century BCE
Tusa, Italy
403 BCE
Agrigento, Italy
480 BCE
Cassano all'Ionio, Italy
720 BCE
Ithaki, Greece
1300 BCE
Vittoria, Italy
599 BCE
Arcadia, Greece
7th century BCE
Policoro, Italy
432 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.