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Yedikule Fortress ('Fortress of the Seven Towers') is a historic fort in Istanbul’s Fatih district, built in 1458 by Sultan Mehmed II by enclosing part of the Walls of Constantinople, including the Golden Gate. Originally an imperial treasury, it later became a state prison, housing notable captives like Sultan Osman II and foreign diplomats.
The fortress, located on the Sea of Marmara, featured storage for valuables, a mosque, and garrison quarters. Used as a prison until 1837, it later served as a gunpowder magazine before becoming a museum in 1895. Today, it hosts cultural events and an open-air theater.
References: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.