Pula, Croatia
0-100 AD
Orange, France
1st century AD
Pompei, Italy
0-100 AD
Brescia, Italy
69-96 AD
Reims, France
200-300 AD
Rome, Italy
4th century AD
Sarandë, Albania
800 BCE
Trier, Germany
2nd century AD
Dax, France
2nd century AD
Aosta, Italy
around 0-10 AD
Berat, Albania
c. 314 BCE
Saintes, France
18-19 AD
Pula, Croatia
27 BCE - 14 AD
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
600-500 BCE
Metz, France
4th century AD
Vienne, France
10 BC
Trier, Germany
100-200 AD
Lugo, Spain
3rd century AD
Brindisi, Italy
2nd century AD
Rome, Italy
104 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.