Pilgrimage Church of Wies
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- Best time to go
- May–September
- Budget
- $$$
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Tucked into an Alpine meadow, the pilgrimage church of Wies is a burst of pure joy in stucco and paint. The architect Dominikus Zimmermann built it between 1745 and 1754 as a masterpiece of Bavarian Rococo — light, exuberant and colourful — and its improbable survival amid green pastures only heightens the effect. UNESCO inscribed the Pilgrimage Church of Wies as a World Heritage Site in 1983.
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