TRIER
"ANTE ROMAM TREVIRIS STETIT ANNIS MILLE TRECENTIS PERSTET ET AETERNA PACE FRVATVR"
"Trier existed 1300 years before Rome.  May it continue to exist and enjoy an eternal peace."
This is the Latin inscription stating the history of Trier.
Yet it was the Romans who made Trier the city it is today.
Before the Romans, it consisted of subsistance Celtic farmers.



Romanesque Trier Cathedral,
begun in the 11th century.
Ornate gate leading to St. Gangolf's Church,
built in between the 14th & 15th centuries.

Electoral Palace, built
in the 1700s.
Electoral Palace with a
view of the gardens.

Electoral Palace gardens.
Electoral Palace Garden Fountain.

The Steipe, also the Ratskellar or
City Hall, built in 1430.
St. Peter's fountain, patron saint of Trier,
built in 1595.



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