Corinth, Greece
2000 BCE
Poros, Greece
520 BCE
Arcadia, Greece
4th century BCE
Vai, Greece
700 BC
Lemnos, Greece
500 BCE
Argos-Mykines, Greece
4th century BCE
Elis, Greece
4th century BCE
Thasos, Greece
6th century BCE
Thasos, Greece
6th century BCE
Mikri Doxipara, Greece
2nd century AD
Corfu, Greece
580 BCE
Ierapetra, Greece
1700 BC
Iasmos, Greece
5th century AD
Epidaurus, Greece
2nd century AD
Kandanos Selinos, Greece
400 BC
Ithaki, Greece
1300 BCE
Arcadia, Greece
7th century BCE
Sparta, Greece
5th century BCE
Maroneia-Sapes, Greece
6th century BCE
Kefalonia, Greece
6th century 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.