Saturday, September 21
Trier's roots go back to 400 BC by a Celtic tribe that settled the city. Then Julius Caesar's legions recognized its strategic point and founded it in 16 BC. It was known as the 2nd most beautiful city in the Roman empire. Becoming one of the 4 capitals in the Roman empire it had public baths, barracks, an amphitheater and temples.
Trier became an important center of Christianity under Emperor Constantine and continued to thrive throughout the Renaissance and baroque periods, taking full advantage of its location of a meeting point for east-west and north-south trade routes.
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