Historic Highlights of Germany e.V.
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Contact:
Björn Rudek
Phone: ++49 (0)651/979 004 60
E-Mail: info@historicgermany.com
KEYWORDS:
- travel
- Rhine
- Constantine
- Cathedral
- Christmas Market
- Christmas Story
- Augustus
- St. Luke
- Augsburg
- Osnabrueck
- Mainz
- Trier
- Romans
- Germany
- Christmas
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Caesar Augustus and the History of Christmas
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 [ download press photo ] | title: UNESCO World Heritage Porta Nigra, Trier image text: Trier's most famous relic is the Porta Nigra, the beautifully preserved fortified gate from the great age when the city was known as Augusta Treverorum. copyright: historicgermany.com |
 [ download press photo ] | title: Christkindlesmarkt Augsburg image text: Augustus, founder of Augsburg, takes the Christmas city under his wing: In reference to the Christmas story, the newly restored nativity scene is placed next to the statue of the emperor of Rome who ordered the census of that time. copyright: Stadt Augsburg Marktamt |
 [ download press photo ] | title: Augsburg Augustus Fountain image text: The statue of Augustus is 2.50m tall, weighs 27 cwt and shows Augustus as a 50-year-old man. The gesture of the raised right hand is the "adlocutio", the solemn speech to the army and a laurel wreath adorns the head of the emperor; laurel as a symbol of glory, honor and peace." copyright: historicgermany.com |
 [ download press photo ] | title: Mainz Museum of Ancient Shipping image text: Mainz on the Rhine river is famous for the so-called "Mainzer Schiffe" (Roman ships of Mainz), whose crew protected the Rhine frontier against hostile attacks as part of the Roman Rhine fleet. copyright: RGZM/R.Müller/V.Iserhardt |
 [ download press photo ] | title: "Varus Mask" image text: The most famous discovery of the battlefield Kalkriese is the ceremonial mask of a Roman horseman. copyright: historicgermany.com |
