Mainz Robert Koch street Car Hire

With a car, you can easily visit Mainz, the capital and at the same time also the largest city in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, and remain flexible in your time. The nearest major surrounding cities are Wiesbaden, Mannheim, Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main and Ludwigshafen. With almost 200,000 inhabitants, has a University Mainz, is the seat of a Catholic Diocese, as well as several well-known television and radio companies. If you want to visit Mainz with a hire car, numerous car hire companies to provide their service you can use is available in the entire city.

Attractions in Mainz

Mainz offers tourists a wide range of interesting and impressive buildings, who decisively shape the city and give you a very special character. Buildings from many different eras is found in the city. Especially buildings from the time of the Romanesque and Gothic are numerous. The most important is the Mainz Cathedral in the Romanesque style. The Archbishop of Willigs had built it in the time dream of 34 years. In the following years, the Cathedral burned three times almost down to the ground, was set up but every time again. You can easily reach all points of interest with the car.

Culture in Mainz

In 2007, Mainz participated in the festivities of European culture capital year. In this event through many interesting cultural performances and exhibitions take place in the city throughout the year, to bring an increase in the number of visitors and a greater attention of the participating city during the following period. But beyond these events, Mainz offers a range of cultural offerings. At some museums with unique collections such as for example the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, the Landesmuseum Mainz and the Gutenberg Museum, a Museum of printing art are worth seeing.

Wine region Mainz

In addition to its many cultural attractions, Mainz is also known for its good wine and the wine-producing regions. Since 2008 Mainz is a member in an International Association for the most prestigious wine-growing cities around the world. In addition to Mainz also Cape Town, Florence, Mendoza, Melbourne, Bilbao, Bordeaux, San Francisco and Porto among the members. In many bars and pubs can try as an exclusive selection of tasty and Mainz's famous wines. Also, numerous events around the wine take place also all year round, which are worth a visit for lovers of good drop in any case.