Seville, Spain
1584
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1572
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1482-1533
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1914-1928
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1134
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14th century
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1567
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1890
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1972
Seville, Spain
1749
Córdoba, Spain
1st century BCE
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2nd century AD
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1933
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13th century
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13th century
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14th century
Seville, Spain
18th century
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10th century AD
Castelló de la Plana, Spain
1440
Almería, Spain
1937
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.