Germanys oldest city
Trier is an independent city with approx. 105,000 inhabitants and situated in the west of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Founded around 2,000 years ago, today the city is the fourth largest of the federal state as well as the oldest in Germany. Trier is located in the middle Moselle Valley and in direct neighbourhood to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Once a splendid Roman town, Trier is still today a diverse destination worth travelling to. Stony witnesses of times long gone by are the landmark of Trier: the famous Porta Nigra, the Roman bath, the amphitheatre and the Roman Bridge over the Moselle. All of them were in 1986 added to the UNESCO‘s world cultural heritage list.
Trier unites buildings of Roman, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism and Gothic times with modern European architecture. It is also a favoured starting point for excursions to the Eifel, Hunsrück or to Luxembourg, Belgium and France.
But you can also relax in one of Trier’s parks. Furthermore, Trier offers water sports, the Moselle cycling trail, which is a part of the international bicycle routes Velo Tour Moselle, the Kylltal cycling trail to the Eifel and the Ruwer Forest Cycling trail to the Hunsrück.
The administrative district of Trier-Saarburg is home to approx. 144,000 inhabitants living in 104 different municipalities, and located in the west of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the border to Luxembourg. Highest peak is the Sandkopf (757 m), seat of administration the city of Trier. Tries-Saarburg is characterized by woody Hunsrück, Südeifel as well as the rivers Moselle, Saar and Ruwer which are also name giver to the important German wine-growing area.
More information: http://www.trier-info.de/english/index
Photo: Porta Nigra, Rostislav Ageev/Shutterstock
