Trier, Germany
100-200 AD
Bacoli, Italy
27 BCE - 14 AD
Silistra, Bulgaria
106 AD
Syracuse, Italy
1st century AD
Devnya, Bulgaria
3rd century AD
Vienne, France
100-200 AD
Barletta, Italy
6th century BCE
Habay, Belgium
2nd century AD
Noto, Italy
4th century AD
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
101-106 AD
Aosta, Italy
25 BC
Villanueva del Río y Minas, Spain
1st century BCE
Venosa, Italy
c. 100 AD
Alderney, United Kingdom
4th century AD
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1st century AD
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1st century AD
Ronda, Spain
45 BCE
Echternach, Luxembourg
0-200 AD
Rome, Italy
306-312
Marbella, Spain
0-100 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.