Archaeological site · Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate
Porta Nigra
Porta Nigra
The Porta Nigra is the Roman city gate of Trier, built around 170 AD and later used as a church, now an institution of Rhineland-Palatinate's Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe (GDKE).
Why go
The Porta Nigra is the Roman city gate of Trier and an institution of the Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz (GDKE), whose German-language Zentrum der Antike page says it was built around 170 AD from about 7,200 stone blocks. The same page says the hermit monk Simeon lived in the gate in the 11th century, that it was converted into a church after his death, and that under Napoleon the church was dissolved in 1803 and the restoration of the ancient form was ordered. Today the gate serves as the central information centre on the Roman city, with a model of ancient Trier and a multimedia guide, and the operator says its tickets are also sold online. It is part of Trier's UNESCO World Heritage property, a designation that covers several monuments and is not this record.
Near Porta Nigra
Fortress
Eltz Castle
Eltz Castle (Burg Eltz) is a medieval castle on a rock in the Elzbach valley, between the Eifel, the Moselle and the Rhine, in the municipality of Wierschem, still owned by the Eltz family.
70 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Geological feature
Lorelei
The Loreley is a slate rock rising above the right bank of the Rhine near Sankt Goarshausen, in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley in Rhineland-Palatinate.
88 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Aachen Cathedral
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120 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Museum
Chocolate Museum (Cologne)
The Chocolate Museum (Schokoladenmuseum Köln) is a privately owned museum of the history and production of cocoa and chocolate at the tip of the Rheinauhafen in Cologne, opened in 1993.
132 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ