Pilgrimage in Bavaria

Pilgrimage in Bavaria grew over centuries from medieval journeys to churches, relics and monasteries and from early-modern Marian devotion, votive practices and communal processions. Baroque and Rococo building campaigns visibly shaped many shrines. Today walking pilgrimages, processions, Mass, confession and the Rosary remain part of the life of many Bavarian pilgrimage places.

Bavaria forms part of the wider pilgrimage landscape of Germany.