Sofia, Bulgaria
3rd century AD
Nyon, Switzerland
45 BC
Ohrid, North Macedonia
200 BCE
Trier, Germany
0-200 AD
Thessaloniki, Greece
2nd century AD
Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
-31 BCE
Avenches, Switzerland
2th century AD
Istanbul, Turkey
373 AD
Sarandë, Albania
27 BCE - 14 AD
Trieste, Italy
100-0 BC
Como, Italy
0-100 AD
Salamanca, Spain
0-100 AD
Rome, Italy
115 BC
Carpentras, France
1st century AD
Rome, Italy
c. 220 AD
Newport, United Kingdom
90 AD
Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria
50 AD
Calatafimi-Segesta, Italy
3rd century BCE
Pula, Croatia
29-27 BC
Newport, United Kingdom
75 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.