Trier, Germany

Mom & Dad at the Kaisertherm Baths

Posing inside one of the
underground rooms.

Inside the tunnel leading underground

Leaving a large
underground room.

Across from the Kaisertherm baths

Roman ruins - Kaisertherm baths

The big Dom built around
1700 years ago

Down the street from the
Dom

Christmas Market with a
large church in the middle of
town.

Posing with Santa Claus in
the Christmas Market

The Porta Nigra - The monumental northern gateway of the roman city fortifications is the largest Roman fortified gateway still in existence, being some 36 meters long,
23 meters wide and 30 meters high. The massive structure, erected at the end of the second century A. D., was constructed using sandstone blocks without any
mortar. The pillars and entablature of the external decoration are in part only roughly finished, heightening its Cyclopean and defensive appearance. In the eleventh
century the gateway was rebuilt as a church dedicated to St. Simeon - who had previously lived here as a hermit - with a choir in the forms of Lorraine Romanesque
style being added about 1150. Emperor Napoleon I had the later additions demolished and the gateway restored. Info from internet

A statue in Trier

Christmas Pyramid (Bescherung) the
smaller sizes are powered by candles,
and are expensive. This one stands
about 45 feet tall.

A forest scene on top of one of the
many Christmas Market booths

A pillar used to punish people in the
olden days. Its hard to see the two
ankle bracelets used to hang the
person upside down.

The Kaisertherm Baths were built about 3 AD by the Romans that were in control. The oldest city in Germany.