A few weeks ago, Mike and I took off for a day trip to Trier, Germany. Trier is the oldest city in Germany. It’s so old, there is an inscription on a red house in town that reads, “Thirteen- hundred years before Rome, Trier stood.” I didn’t actually see that house, but I know it’s there. I just missed it. But what I couldn’t miss, is the Porta Nigra (the black gate). The Porta (as the locals call it) is the largest Roman city gate North of the Alps and it is the main portal into the city of Trier.
The Porta Nigra