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Being in such a famous wine region, you can obviously enjoy a drop of fine local wine while you are here. Leave a Comment
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The Frankenturm is one of the oldest buildings in the town, older even than its more colourful counterpart the Dreik�nigshaus. Despite it's austere and militaristic look, the Romanesque tower was actually residential. It's one of the few remaining medieval buildings in the town, and was built around 1100, but takes its name from Franko von Senheim, who lived there in the 14th century. Leave a Comment Directions: Walk down Fleischstrasse from the Hauptmarkt, and there's a small covered alley just off to the right behind the department store. Walk down there to find the Frankenturm.
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Possibly Trier's most famous son is Karl Marx, who was born at the eponymously named Karl-Marx Haus in 1818. Surviving confiscation by the Nazi party, it became a museum after the war. The exhibitions are a bit dry, covering his political theories and charting the course of world communism across history. It's apparently a big hit with Chinese visitors to Germany. Leave a Comment Address: Bruckenstr. 10Directions: Keep walking down Fleischstrasse from the Hauptmarkt and it turns into Bruckenstrasse as it heads down towards the Roman bridge. Karl Marx Haus is on your right.
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The Baroque fountain of St. George is located in the Kornmarkt and is a popular place for people to rest up and people watch. The beautiful old building that the ornate fountain graces, is now home to the local post office. Leave a Comment Directions: Walk down Fleischstrasse from the Hauptmarkt and it's on your left.
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Trier is so easy to get around, you can't not enjoy it. Basically, all you have to do is find your way to the town center, and spiderweb your way around. You can see all the major points from the middle of town, so that helps also. I recommend starting with the Porta Nigra, and while you're there, check out the museum. Then wander over to The Dom cathedral. You can also check out the residence, the Roman baths, the gardens, just too many to list. The weather in Germany is unpredicatable at best, so always bring a rain-jacket that can be easily stowed. Directions: Town Centre
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Trier's beautiful marketplace, the Hauptmarkt, is a focal point of the town and contains many of its finest old buildings, like the Gothic Steipe and the Renaissance Rotes Haus. The market place centers around the ornate Petrusbrunnen, and the pastel and half-timbered facades are watched over by the imposing spire of the St. Gangolf church.
Like a few other churches in towns across Germany, the St. Gangolf church was built by uppity local townsfolk as a means of usurping the power of the Church in the nearby cathedral. The church was built to be higher than the Cathedral, and the leaders of the Church in Trier were so annoyed they had one of the cathedral's tower extrended in order to put the townsfolk back in their place.
All roads in Trier lead to the Hauptmarkt, so it makes a great place to navigate from. Standing at the Petrusbrunnen fountain, you have the Portra Nigra to the north, the Cathedral to the east, the Kaiserthermen to the south, and the Mosel river to the west. Leave a Comment
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Like much of Trier, the imposing fortress like Cathedral has its roots in Roman times. It was built in sections, rather than in one single construction, spanning nearly two millenia. Inside the central chapel is a room built of Roman brick under the direction of Saint Helen. The mother of Constantine I, she is also credited with founding the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. So I've now visited all three of her major churches! Leave a Comment Directions: The cathedral can be easily reached from the central market square.
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 Rococo Statues of the
Palastgarten, Trier by antistar, 4 more photosLeave a Comment Directions: Next to, and in the ominous shadow of, the Constantine Basilica. Or walk across the gardens and park from the Kaisertherm.
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Built in 100AD, this very large amphitheater is the oldest surving Roman building in Trier. It's big, with a historical capacity of over 20,000 people, but it's not as impressive as the Amphitheater of Nimes. That's because despite being a similar size, it's not a building, but dug out of the slopes of Petrisberg just outside of the city. Because of that, and because of the grassy slopes that hide the seats, and the clutter of modern stages and stadium seating, you can only really get a sense of what it must have been like here two thousands years ago. Back then they wouldn't have been listening to Bach on balmy summer nights, but instead enjoying the howls of exotic wild animals as they fought against gladiators and Christians.
Actually I found it slightly annoying that they charged me full price to enter the amphitheater when so much crap was filling it up for the performance later that night. Leave a Comment
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Behind the shoulder of the pink layer cake Kurfurstliches Palace with its licorice windows and ice cream statues, lurks the austere Amityville Horror house of the Constantine Basilica. Like the witch in Hansel and Gretel it lies in wait behind the sweet looking Palace which lures the innocent into lush green gardens. There it glooms, hating the joy and laughter of the revellers as they play.
I'm getting a bit lyrical here, but for some reason I found the vast Constantine Basilica to be quite spooky. It was once the throne room of Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, who made his home in Trier. In those days the vast 67m long self-supporting building was ornately decorated. Now it is a Protestant church, and its once glorious exterior has been stripped to the bare bones. Its plain brick exterior matches in simplicity its near empty interior. Leave a Comment Directions: Walk down Brotstrasse from the market place, and take a left down Constantine Strasse.
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