From Wikitravel

Trier [1], in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany, is the country's oldest city, dating from Roman times.

Contents 1 Understand 2 Get in 2.1 By plane 2.2 By train 2.3 By car 2.4 By bus 2.5 By boat 3 Get around 4 See 5 Do 6 Learn 7 Work 8 Buy 9 Eat 9.1 Budget 9.2 Mid-range 9.3 Splurge 10 Drink 11 Sleep 11.1 Budget 11.2 Mid-range 11.3 Splurge 12 Contact 13 Stay safe 14 Cope 15 Get out

Understand

Get in

By plane

• Luxembourg Airport is a minor destination about 50 km away.

• Another nearby airport is Frankfurt/Hahn (which is not very close to Frankfurt!). It is about 75 km to the east of Trier. It is a destination for RyanAir.

• Frankfurt International Airport is about 200 km away. The train from there would be about 3 hours via Saarbrücken or Koblenz.

By train

Trains leave hourly from Trier to Saarbuecken, Koblenz and Cologne. Timetable and ticket information could found at http://www.db.de/site/bahn/en/start.html

By car

Trier is connected by the european motorway E44 from Luxembourg city (~50 km) via Trier to Koblenz (~100 km), E422 from Trier to Saarbrücken(~100 km).

Trier is connected to the Autobahn A6. This city is about one hour from Kaiserslautern or two hours from Mannheim.

By bus

By boat

Get around

Walking is the best way to travel around the city, though a vehicle is good when visiting the stadium. Also there is a scenic overview up the hill by the stadium where you can see the entire city. The city tours take you up there.

See

Trier is rich in ruins from the Roman Empire (protected by UNESCO), such as the

• Porta Nigra gate
• the Roman baths (the Kaiserthermen)
• a Roman theater which used to host 20,000 spectators.

Geburtshaus von Karl Marx is where Karl Marx was born, in 1818.

Trier Cathedral incorporates part of a church built by Emperor Constantine and contains the relic of the Holy Robe.

The Liebfrauenkirche is one of the earliest Gothic buildings in Germany.

Do

Learn

Trier hosts a university as well as a university of applied sciences (the so-called Fachhochschule).

Work

Buy

Eat

Budget

Inexpensive and tasty meals such as pizza (with your choice of toppings), casseroles, salads etc. can be found in the formerly student-owned Astarix next to the theater, in the south-west of the inner city.

There is a McDonalds in the market square.

Mid-range

Splurge

Drink

Apart from the standard wines - Trier is in a wine-growing area - and beers, one should definitely try Viez or Viez/Limo. Viez is an apple wine, which is often served with a splash of lemonade.

Sleep

Budget

Mid-range

Splurge

Contact

Stay safe

Trier is a very safe city. Standard travel safety applies.

Cope

Get out

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