St. Coloman
Baroque pilgrimage church standing alone in an open meadow beneath the Alps, rich in stucco inside.
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This guide to the pilgrimage church of St. Coloman, in the meadows outside Schwangau near Füssen, follows the Irish pilgrim it is named for, who by local tradition rested on this spot in the summer of ten twelve on his way to the Holy Land. It walks east with him into a border country at war, where a stranger without a word of German drew the wrong kind of attention. Best heard standing in the meadow, facing the church with the mountains behind it.
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