The 12th century fortified church of Santa María de Ujué stands on the highest point of the town. It is a fine example of Romanesque architecture, with Gothic additions.
The church originates back to the 9th century when Iñigo Arista ordered a temple to be built next to the fortress that this king ordered to be built. This first pre-Romanesque church was demolished to erect a new Romanesque building in the 12th century under the auspices of King Sancho Ramírez. In the 14th century, Charles II ordered part of the Romanesque naves to be demolished in order to build a single Gothic building. The choir, the undertowers, the crenellated towers and the façades were also built, as well as the church was surrounded by promenades and walls. All of this gave the complex the appearance of a fortress that it still has today. Interred in the church is the heart of Charles II of Navarre.
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.