Ohrid, North Macedonia
200 BCE
Ohrid, North Macedonia
4th century AD
Gradsko, North Macedonia
3rd century BCE
Bitola, North Macedonia
c. 350 BCE
Skopje, North Macedonia
Unknown
Kumanovo, North Macedonia
1900-1800 BCE
Kratovo, North Macedonia
Unknown
Sveti Nikole, North Macedonia
3rd century BCE
Karbinci, North Macedonia
4th century AD
Gevgelija, North Macedonia
13th century BCE
Skopje, North Macedonia
168 BCE
Zelenikovo, North Macedonia
4th century AD
Kratovo, North Macedonia
Paleolithic Age
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.