Verona, Italy
c. 1329
Rome, Italy
18-12 BC
Milan, Italy
1866
Rome, Italy
309 AD
Palermo, Italy
1599
Pieve del Grappa, Italy
1935
Alghero, Italy
3200-1600 BCE
Rome, Italy
4th century AD
Rome, Italy
2nd century AD
Redipuglia, Italy
1938
Arzachena, Italy
1800-1600 BCE
Sortino, Italy
13th century BCE
Bonorva, Italy
3500-2900 BCE
Rome, Italy
2nd century AD
Palermo, Italy
4th century AD
Syracuse, Italy
212 BCE
Rome, Italy
2nd century AD
Arzachena, Italy
1800-1200 BCE
Calangianus, Italy
1700-1400 BCE
Arzachena, Italy
3500 BCE
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.