Cartagena, Spain
2nd century BCE
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0-100 BC
Vaison-la-Romaine, France
0-100 AD
Edirne, Turkey
2nd century AD
Vienne, France
40-50 AD
Aosta, Italy
25 BC
Mérida, Spain
2nd century AD
Aswan, Egypt
30 BCE
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200-300 AD
Vienne, France
27 BC
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6 BC
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1st century AD
Poreč, Croatia
0-100 AD
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2nd century AD
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0-100 AD
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1st century AD
Rome, Italy
309 AD
Rome, Italy
272 BCE
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100-0 BCE
Vaison-la-Romaine, France
20 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.