Mérida, Spain
8 BCE
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11th century
Ávila, Spain
1091
A Coruña, Spain
2nd century AD
Mérida, Spain
16-15 BCE
Guadalupe, Spain
14th century
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
1563
Úbeda, Spain
16th century
Alcalá de Henares, Spain
1499
Mérida, Spain
835 AD
Ávila, Spain
c. 1120
Mérida, Spain
25 BCE
Mérida, Spain
1st century AD
Aranjuez, Spain
16th century
Ávila, Spain
12th century
Córdoba, Spain
936 AD
Oviedo, Spain
848 AD
Baeza, Spain
16th century
Oviedo, Spain
9th century AD
Oviedo, Spain
c. 830 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.