Alanís castle has Arab origins. The town was conquered by Ferdinand III in 1249 and the castle was rebuilt in 1392. It has a hexagonal floor plan, with a tower and barbican, which has now disappeared. Its walls are 2.3 metres wide and 6.5 metres high, leaving only one access to the enclosure on the north side, from where the village can be seen.
Th castle was attacked by the French during the Napoleonic occupation, who dynamited one of its walls, the southwest one, and the ruins are still preserved today.
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.