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Mainz -
25 min trip by subway

  • Roman Mainz/ Moguntiacum (since 13B.C.)

    the Roman relics: army headquarters, administrative center, political capital of Upper Germania, and cultural nexus.

  • Christian Mainz

    The Archbishops of Mainz traditionally were primas germaniae, the substitutes of the Pope north of the Alps.

  • Gutenberg-Museum

    of the inventor of the printing with moveable letters, with his world renowned 42 line bible being one of the prime exhibits.

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Mainz sights

From Roman Moguntiacum as an important military town, later the provincial capital of Germania Superior, throughout the Middle Ages as a center of the christianisation of German and Slavic folks. The place, where around 1439 the printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg.

  • St. Martin Dom/ Cathedral:
  • Gutenberg Museum
  • Dativius Victor Arch honoring the Imperial House
  • Mammoth Roman Theater
  • Drususstein / Drusus Stone
  • The Sacred Site of Isis- Mater Magna
  • The Column of Jupiter
  • St. Ignaz Church: baroque and classicism
  • Augustinerkirche Church: splendid rococo ornamentation.
  • St. Stephan: Chagall's mysticism of blue light: