I used to read his book when I was at the Uni and was always amaze with his way of thinking, and was always meaning to go visit his place of birth, I might understand him better…. Whilst the heatwave in the full swing and travel restrictions still not ease to travel outside EU, I decided to visit Trier, Karl Marx place of birth.
Arriving late, I parked my stuff in the hotel room and get rest after intense 4,5 hours on the road, I feel Trier has different atmosphere with the other German cities, about foreign to me with the Romans ruin, haven’t seen that a lot in other Germans city. Any trip to Trier, wouldn’t be complete without touring the ruins and my place to go is The Porta Negra.
This gate was built in the Romans time as the entrance gate to the city, as all of you know at the Romans empire time Tries was the 4biggest city. The city was protected by a city wall with several entrance gates, the Porta Negra was the biggest one. Later, long after the Romans left, a church was built around the Porta Negra, but Napoleon had it demolished, having spent almost 2 hours discovering this beautiful massive gate, I quickly came to the city’s main square.
The Medieval Hauptmark , the heart of Trier’s historic old town. The square is large and charming, with pretty architectural details and a humble fountainand the Dom.
In the heat of this summer, we decided to have a walk to the Romanian Bath underground tunnel, trying to seek a bit of shade. This bath is one of the nine Unesco world heritage sites, imagine the slaves task to stoking the fires to heated the water.
We passed Karl Marx house and his statue, which ironic enough donated by the Chinese govt. in his house you will find plenty of his writing and memorabilia.
It was really a hot afternoon, I barely able to stay outside,. So we called it a day and going back to Luxembourg.
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