© Berthold Werner · Public domainthermes impériaux de TrèvesTrierThe Trier Imperial Baths stand in the heart of Trier, a city in the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz. Built in the early 4th century under Constantine I, the complex was meant to serve as a grand Roman bath. Trier served as a key imperial residence at the time, especially for Constantine’s son Crispus. The baths… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Stefan Kühn · CC BY-SA 3.0thermes de BarbaraTrierThe Barbara Baths are the largest Roman bath complex north of the Alps. They stand in Trier, once the seat of the Roman procurator for several provinces. The ruins cover more than forty thousand square metres and were built in the second half of the second century. A new aqueduct supplied water from the Ruwer valley… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Berthold Werner · CC BY-SA 3.0Karl-Marx-HausTrierThe Karl Marx House stands in Trier, a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany. Built in 1727 as a two-storey baroque building, it was the birthplace of Karl Marx on 5 May 1818. The Marx family left the house in 1819, and its historical importance was not recognised until the early 20th century. The Social… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© D. Witter-Rieder · CC BY-SA 3.0écomusée Roscheider HofKonzThe Freilichtmuseum Roscheider Hof is an open-air museum near Konz, between the Saar and Mosel rivers. It sits eight kilometres west of Trier and thirty kilometres east of Luxembourg. The museum covers twenty-two hectares of grounds and includes historical buildings, gardens and a village reconstruction. The estate’s… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Berthold Werner · Public domainmusée rhénan de TrèvesTrierThe Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier stands on the edge of the palace garden of the Electoral Palace, just outside the old Roman wall. Its red-sandstone building was designed in the 19th century by Clemens Guinbert and enlarged in the early 20th century by Carl Hocheder. After wartime destruction it was rebuilt in a… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de · CC BY-SA 3.0 depalais du Prince-électeurTrierThe Electoral Palace in Trier stands on the site of Constantine the Great’s Roman imperial palace from the early 4th century. The surviving Roman Basilica of Constantine forms part of the palace complex, its massive brick walls still visible today. The palace served as the residence for the Archbishops and Electors of… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de · CC BY-SA 3.0 deKarl-Marx-StatueTrier-Mitte/GartenfeldThe Karl Marx statue stands in Trier, a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany. It occupies Simeonstiftplatz, a public square near the Porta Nigra, an ancient Roman gate. The monument was unveiled in 2018 to mark the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth. A gift from the People’s Republic of China, it was… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Berthold Werner · CC BY-SA 3.0Thermen am ViehmarktTrierThe Forum Baths sit beneath Trier’s Viehmarkt square as the remains of a Roman bathing complex. Built in the 2nd century and enlarged in the 4th, the site once covered 8,364 square metres. Its caldarium and tepidarium faced south to catch the sun, while the frigidarium looked north. After centuries of use the baths… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Stefan Kühn at de.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0MariensäuleTrierThe Mariensäule stands on the Pulsberg above the Mosel valley in Trier. It rises 40.9 metres in total, with the statue itself 6.9 metres high. The column is built on a 296-metre hill, giving a clear view over the city and the river below. It faces the Konstantinbasilika across the valley, making its position a… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Berthold Werner · CC BY-SA 3.0Collégiale Saint-SiménonTrierThe Kollegiatstift St. Simeon stands in Trier, where it once incorporated the Porta Nigra, the ancient Roman gate of the city. The church was founded after 1035 in honour of Simeon of Trier, a Greek monk who had lived as a hermit inside the Porta Nigra from 1028. After his death in 1035 he was buried on the ground… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
