Ascea, Italy
538-535 BCE
Aquileia, Italy
181 BC
Pozzuoli, Italy
2nd century AD
Rapallo, Italy
3rd century BCE
Kempten (Allgäu), Germany
1st century AD
Aosta, Italy
25 BC
Benevento, Italy
2nd century AD
Pont-Saint-Martin, Italy
c. 25 BC
Bacoli, Italy
8th century BCE
Lugo, Spain
1st century AD
Fontvieille, France
2nd century AD
Bohonal de Ibor, Spain
2nd century AD
Patras, Greece
160 AD
Bavay, France
16-13 BCE
Las Médulas, Spain
0-100 AD
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
0-100 AD
Fréjus, France
0-100 AD
Ourense, Spain
c. 75 AD
Córdoba, Spain
3rd century AD
Welzheim, Germany
160 AD
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.