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Founded: 12th centuryCategory: Castles and fortifications in France
Historical period: Late Capetians (France)
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Château d'Apcher in Prunières was mentioned first time in 1180. Abandoned in the 17th century, it still has a dungeon, remains of dwellings and outbuildings, as well as a castle chapel dedicated to Saint John the Baptist with painted decorations from the 14th and 15th centuries. Located on a rocky promontory offering a unique view of the surroundings, the keep impresses with its fifteen meters height and its terrace crowned with battlements.
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.