Venice, Italy
9th century
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1063-1093
Venice, Italy
1340
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72-80 AD
Vatican, Vatican City State
1477
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1506-1626
Rome, Italy
126 AD
Vatican, Vatican City State
1471-1605
Rome, Italy
8th century BC
Rome, Italy
134-139
Vatican, Vatican City State
1475
Verona, Italy
c. 30 AD
Turin, Italy
14th century
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11th century
Ercolano, Italy
7th century BCE
Verona, Italy
c. 1329
Turin, Italy
1679
Riomaggiore, Italy
13th century
Rome, Italy
432 AD
Pompei, Italy
7th 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.