Solin, Croatia
2nd century AD
Durrës, Albania
2nd century AD
Mainz, Germany
1st century AD
Medellín, Spain
1st century BCE
Arles, France
4th century AD
Brescia, Italy
73 AD
Augst, Switzerland
44 BC
Varna, Bulgaria
2nd century AD
Alcántara, Spain
104 AD
Rome, Italy
38 AD
Vaison-la-Romaine, France
0-100 AD
Fier, Albania
588 BCE
Solin, Croatia
7th century BCE
Benevento, Italy
114-117
Seville, Spain
68-65 BCE
Rome, Italy
Early Roman
Trier, Germany
100-200 AD
Rome, Italy
c. 100 AD
Schwarzenacker, Germany
1st century AD
Arlon, Belgium
200-300 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.