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The main sights of Zavattarello is the castle, also known as Castello Del Verme, which overlooks the town. It was built in the 10th century and was owned by Dal Verme family from 1390 until 1975.
Outside it is majestic and surrounded by a wide park. The view from its terraces is breathtaking, from which you can see the Alpine Garden of Pietra Corva, that has very peculiar plants.
Now in the castle there is also a museum of modern art.
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.