Brescia, Italy
73 AD
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1306
Serralunga di Crea, Italy
1589
Cerveteri, Italy
800 BC
Montecatini Terme, Italy
14th century
Palazzolo Acreide, Italy
17th century
Capriate San Gervasio, Italy
1869
Tarquinia, Italy
800 BC
Ascea, Italy
538-535 BCE
Ragusa, Italy
17th century
Aquileia, Italy
181 BC
Maser, Italy
1558-1570
Domodossola, Italy
1657
Ghiffa, Italy
1647
Mira, Italy
1558-1560
Venaria Reale, Italy
1720s
Turin, Italy
15th century
Pollenzo, Italy
1832-1848
Fanzolo, Italy
1559
Sortino, Italy
13th 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.