Seville, Spain
1st century BCE
Athens, Greece
132 AD
Catania, Italy
2nd century AD
Rome, Italy
10th century BC
Segovia, Spain
50 BCE
Málaga, Spain
100-0 BCE
Rome, Italy
13 BC
Rome, Italy
28 BC
Sofia, Bulgaria
4th century AD
Sofia, Bulgaria
3rd century AD
Athens, Greece
19-11 BC
Rome, Italy
120-80 BC
Rome, Italy
300-400 BC
Rome, Italy
200-100 BC
Córdoba, Spain
1st century BCE
Gijón, Spain
0-100 AD
Mérida, Spain
8 BCE
A Coruña, Spain
2nd century AD
Mérida, Spain
16-15 BCE
Athens, Greece
131-132 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.