Trojaborg, Visby, Innerstaden, Sweden

The island of Gotland has many stone labyrinths, but the most famous is Trojaborg in Visby. It may have its origins in a pagan cult, but in more recent times it has been used for games and festivities.

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Fladderpatten 123 (2 years ago)
Yes you. A stone labyrinth you could say. Not very impressive but the forest path nearby. Wow ?

Helge Rasmus Baad (3 years ago)
Very fresh hotel with good staff and very good rooms!

Jesper Löfberg (5 years ago)
Re-living my childhood

camilla andersson (6 years ago)
Cozy place with many walking paths

Alex Pietrow (7 years ago)

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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.

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