Zadar, Croatia
1st century AD
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1st century AD
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206 BCE
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2nd century AD
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400-500 BCE
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13 BCE
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6th century BC
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c. 328 AD
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4th century AD
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186-200 AD
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10th century BCE
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300-400 AD
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1st century AD
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25 BCE
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1st century AD
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212-127 AD
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1st century BCE
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5 BCE
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27 BC - 68 AD
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550-450 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.