Fitero, Spain
1141
Escorca, Spain
13th century
Yesa, Spain
842 AD
A Capela, Spain
10th century AD
Soria, Spain
12th century
Villaviciosa, Spain
1200-1226
Burgos, Spain
1442
Sobrado, Spain
952 AD
Nogueira de Ramuín, Spain
921 AD
Granada, Spain
16th century
Cuacos de Yuste, Spain
1402
Lerma, Spain
1604
Burgos, Spain
1187
Calera de León, Spain
13th century
Ayegui, Spain
10th century AD
Monforte de Lemos, Spain
10th century AD
Ávila, Spain
1482-1493
Poio, Spain
17th century
Granada, Spain
1506
San Cristovo de Cea, Spain
1137-1141
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.