The trip to Tier was another little day trip we had planned. It is not too far from the base and has a lot of history. It was a little hard for me to get use to that when things are old, its not like 1800's old, more like before B.C. old. As this town is.
I have to admit my world history is not well known as my U.S. history, so I had a lot of fun seeing and learning many things over in western Europe. Anyhow this is gateway to the city is a big attraction, it is called Porta Nigra. It was built back I think 200 AD by the Romans. I
There seems to be two prominent religions Catholic and Lutheran. They have some pretty impressive stone work and stained glass windows of this buildings.
As it was explained to me that when these churches were built so many hundreds of years ago many people could not read so they taught though pictures. The detail that was done was pretty amazing.
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