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The Château de Picomtal, in Crots (Hautes-Alpes), was built in the Middle Ages and renovated in the 16th and 19th centuries. A full restoration in the early 2000s revealed writings by Joachim Martin, documenting 19th-century village life.
Originally a feudal residence, the château expanded over centuries, surviving fires and multiple owners. It was listed as a historic monument in 1989. Restored between 1999 and 2003, it now serves as a guesthouse and event venue.
It features a chapel with 1892 frescoes and a Provençal-style garden, awarded the 2015 National Garden Prize.
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.