With a rental car the best opportunity to learn about the city of Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate, offers. If you decide for a tour with a hire car to remain independent of other means of transport and can enjoy your trip as carefree. More than 100,000 people live in Trier, the city is also home to a renowned University and University of applied sciences. The nearest major surrounding cities are Saarbrücken, Kaiserslautern and Mainz. The town today looks back on a more than two thousand years old history and is the oldest town in very Germany called this.
With the long development of the town, Trier has a number of old historical buildings, whose making dating back even to the time of the ancient world. The so-called Roman trier consists of the magnificent amphitheatre, the Imperial as well as the bar off p. baths, the Roman bridge, the Porta nigra, the Igeler column, the Cathedral and the Basilica of Constantine. This Roman Trier and the Church of our Lady were set in 1986 by UNESCO to the list of world heritage. But also from the modern period, Trier has several attractions that are worth a visit in any case. These include the electoral Palace, the castle of Monaise, and the Karl-Marx-Haus, among others. With a car, you can easily and quickly reach all attractions in Trier itself.
The Constantine exhibition of the city of Trier in part of the programme of the European capital of culture was in 2007. But otherwise, Trier has to offer its visitors and tourists culturally a lot. Trier theatre was built in 1802 and is thus already over two hundred years old. Today, with over 622 seats the theatre and offers regular performances in the field of Opera, musical, Ballet, and of the classic play. In addition, a number of interesting museums, that inform visitors about the different topics, such as for example the Toy Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Simeonstift and the ethnographic and Museum located in Trier.
If you take it somewhat quieter for your exploring the city, some small parks offer the opportunity to relax just in the middle of the nature and to relax the soul. The garden is one of the electoral Palace and was only prepared towards the end of the 1930s by various endowment to a public park which today among the inhabitants and visitors of most popular delighted. The Nells Park is the second major Park in Trier and was created in the time of the early English Dutch-style.
