Kavousi, Greece
600 BC
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2nd century AD
Kyparissia, Greece
-2200 BCE
Nafplio, Greece
4th century BCE
Lemnos, Greece
8th century BCE
Lemnos, Greece
7th century BCE
Argos-Mykines, Greece
3000 BCE
Karpathos, Greece
4th century BCE
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2500 BCE
Rethymno, Greece
800-900 BC
Kasos, Greece
5th century BCE
Komotini, Greece
4th century AD
Patras, Greece
2nd century 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.