Pula, Croatia
100-0 BCE
Split, Croatia
4th century AD
Termini Imerese, Italy
2nd century BCE
Dalheim, Luxembourg
100-200 AD
Mamer, Luxembourg
0-200 AD
Rome, Italy
144-140 BCE
Blankenheim, Germany
1st century AD
Varaždinske Toplice, Croatia
0-300 AD
Lienz, Austria
50 BC
Patti, Italy
2nd century AD
Pleven, Bulgaria
4th century AD
Thénac, France
1st century AD
Rodange, Luxembourg
0-100 BC
Tholey, Germany
1st century AD
Mendigorría, Spain
1st century BCE
Córdoba, Spain
3000-2000 BCE
Albenga, Italy
2nd century AD
Omišalj, Croatia
1st century AD
Grumento Nova, Italy
3rd century BCE
Koerich, Luxembourg
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.