Visit to Trier and Moselle wine country

Last Friday, July 30 we took a day trip to the Moselle wine area and the oldest town in Germany - Trier - settled by the Romans in about 16 BC. The bridge pictured was built starting in 16 B.C. and still in use today - now that is solid construction!! The town gate pictured, called Porta Nigra, is built of colossal, weathered sandstone blocks. Trier is also the home of the founder of modern socialism, Karl Marx. Constantine's Basilica, whose interior is the largest single room to have survived since antiquity, sits unfinished; and the imperial baths which were part of the largest bathing complex in the Roman empire can also be explored below ground. We enjoyed food and entertainment in the Altstadt (old city) square, a bus tour, and then a drive through the Moselle wine country, with a stop in Ediger for a sample!!