Mariatrost Basilica

 

If you want to get married in an atmospheric, solemn setting, you should come to Mariatrost. If you love solid, pure Baroque, do the same. The twin-towered pilgrimage church stands proudly on a hill in the east of Graz. In 1714, the order of St. Paul commissioned (most probably) the architects Andreas and Johann Georg Stengg to erect the church. The heart of it is a statue of the Virgin Mary, whose fame as a miracle-worker even in the 17th century attracted great numbers of pilgrims.