Trier is one of the oldest cities in Germany close to one of the smallest countries of the world – The Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, which Christmas Market we already have visited.
The Christmas Market in Trier in its present form has been held for 40 years and is a romantic experience in a Roman and Medieval setting. It is often visited together with the Christmas Market in the picturesque village of Bernkastel-Kues.
Porta Nigra is one of four city gates to the Roma town of Augusta Triverum, the city founded by the emperor Augustus among the tribe of the Triveri. The gate survived because a Greek hermit Simeon lived here after 1028 and a convent built is his honor converted it to a two story church.