Porta Nigra (UNESCO World Heritage)
www.trier.de/tourismus The Porta Nigra (black gate) is Trier's famous landmark. The Roman city gate from the 2nd century AD was built of sandstone blocks held together by iron clamps. From the 11th to the 18th century, the city gate served as the double church of St. Simeon, of which the Romanesque apse has been preserved.
Kaiserthermen (UNESCO World Heritage) [Imperial Baths]
www.trier.de/tourismus The walls of the hot bath have been preserved from the Roman bathing facility from the 4th century, originally with hot, lukewarm, and cold baths and sports ground. The extensive cellar story with furnaces (praefurnia) for the heating system have been preserved. The Imperial Baths are the most recent of Trier's three large Roman baths.
Amphitheater (UNESCO World Heritage)
www.trier.de/tourismus Built around AD 100, the arena for gladiator and animal fights had a seating capacity for about 20,000 spectators. A large, still accessible cellar lies under the arena.
Barbarathermen (UNESCO World Heritage) [Barbara Baths]
www.trier.de/tourismus The foundations, cellar passageways, and remains of the hollow-floor heating system have been preserved from the fourth largest bath in the Roman Empire, built in the 2nd century AD. The Barbara Baths are closed until further notice because of necessary restoration.
Viehmarktthermen [Forum Baths]
www.trier.de/tourismus The massive foundations of a Roman bath, medieval waste pits, and cellar rooms of a baroque Capuchin monastery are visible under the protective structure designed by architect Oswald M. Ungers. The Forum Baths can be used for conferences and events.
Römerbrücke (UNESCO World Heritage) [Roman Bridge]
www.trier.de/tourismus The Trier Roman Bridge over the Moselle is the oldest Roman Bridge north of the Alps. Still today, it easily bears up under modern traffic because of the size and stability of the Roman piers.
Konstantin-Basilika (UNESCO World Heritage) [Constantine "Basilika"]
www.trier.de/tourismus The palace audience hall (aula palatina) built by the Roman Emperor Constantine around AD 310 served in the Roman era as the throne room of Roman emperors. The ruin was remodeled first as a castle in the Middle Ages and later to a wing of the Electoral Palace. In 1856, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV restored the structure, making it a Protestant Church.
Kurfürstliches Palais [Electoral Palace]
www.trier.de/tourismus The rococo palace was designed and built by J. Seiz as the south wing of the Electoral Palace (17th century) from 1756 to 1761. The still existing east and north wings (Renaissance style), the Red Tower, and the St. Petersburg gate also belong to the complex. Copies of baroque statues of gods and remains of the medieval city wall are located in the Palace Garden.
Dom (UNESCO World Heritage) [Cathedral]
www.trier.de/tourismus The oldest bishop's church north of the Alps emanated from a house church in Late Antiquity (expanded to a monumental church complex in the 4th century AD). After destruction (5th/9th centuries), the remaining intact core was enlarged again by additions (west/east choirs, cloister, Holy Robe Chapel). With three crypts, cloister, Cathedral Treasury, and Holy Robe Chapel, the Cathedral displays architecture and art today covering a span of over 1,700 years. The Cathedral is also an important place of pilgrimage. The most precious relic, the Holy Robe, the Tunic of Christ, is the goal of great numbers of pilgrims. The next Holy Robe pilgrimage is to be held in 2012.
Liebfrauenkirche (UNESCO World Heritage) [Church of Our Lady]
www.trier.de/tourismus Built in the 13th century, it is the earliest Gothic church in Germany, with the special feature of a cruciform floor plan. Between the cross arms are chapels, a combination of small apses (apsidioles) from whose center a crossing tower rises.
Hauptmarkt [Main Market]
www.trier.de/tourismus Trier received the right to hold a market in 958. The Main Market became the center of medieval Trier, with the Market Cross, the Steipe (banqueting house of the city councilmen), St. Peter's Fountain, and half-timbered houses.
St.-Paulin-Kirche [St. Paulin's Church]
www.trier.de/tourismus A baroque jewel in the Rhineland, the church was erected according to plans by Balthasar Neumann in 1734 to 1757. The wooden sculptures on the former high altar are by Ferdinand Tietz and the ceiling paintings by Thomas Scheffler. The organ from 1756 has been restored.
St.-Matthias-Abteikirche [St. Matthias's Church]
www.trier.de/tourismus The Romanesque Abbey and parish church from the 10th to the 12th century enshrines the grave of the Apostle Matthias (only Apostle's grave north of the Alps).
Church des Bischöflichen Priesterseminars (Jesuitenkirche) and Friedrich-Spee-Gruft [Jesuit Church and Friedrich-Spee Tomb]
www.trier.de/tourismus Gothic hall church from the 13th century with baroque elements. The inner courtyard of the Theological Seminary leads to the tomb of Friedrich Spee (1591-1635) with the remains of the famous poet and fighter against the witch hysteria. He lived in Trier between 1610 and 1612 and again between 1632 and 1635 and died there.
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier [Archaeological Museum]
www.landesmuseum-trier.de From its 200 years of collection activity and archaeological research, the Trier Archaeological Museum exhibits monuments to cultural history and art from Trier and the Moselle region from pre-history to the 19th century.
Stadtmuseum Simeonstift [Municipal Museum]
www.museum-trier.de The museum is located directly next to the Porta Nigra in a former collegiate building going back to the 11th century. Visitors can enter into the city and regional history through the precious objects and models, for example, a large model of Trier, and interactive areas.
Bischöfliches Dom- and Diözesanmuseum Trier [Cathedral Museum]
www.bistum-trier.de/museum The museum offers a rich collection from the Early Christian era, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Era. The painted plaster ceiling, reassembled from thousands of fragments from a room in the palace under Trier Cathedral (4th century AD), is considered one of the most significant monuments of painting from Late Antiquity.
Karl Marx Haus, Museum
www.trier.de/tourismus The birthplace of Karl Marx, the founder of modern socialism, with the exhibition "Karl Marx (1818-1883). Life - Work - Influence up to the Present."
Spielzeugmuseum Trier [Toy Museum]
www.spielzeug-museum-trier.de The museum includes mechanical toys, model cars, model airplanes, games, tin figures, aviation and space toys, miniature railways, an impressive doll collection, and much more
