Alicante, Spain
3rd century BCE
Bonnieux, France
3 BCE
Mérida, Spain
c. 20 BCE
Alcántara, Spain
103 AD
Pedrosa de la Vega, Spain
350-400 AD
Pumsaint, United Kingdom
c. 74 AD
Xanten, Germany
98 AD
Nin, Croatia
1st century AD
Vienne, France
0-300 AD
Napoli, Italy
37 BCE
Ibiza, Spain
6th century AD
Naples, Italy
19 BCE
Bordeaux, France
2nd century AD
Górtyn, Greece
3200 BC
Torrox, Spain
2nd century BCE
Saintes, France
40-50 AD
Durrës, Albania
0-100 AD
Alange, Spain
2nd century AD
Tarifa, Spain
Roman
Capri, Italy
27 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.