Was man in Mainz sehen sollte

is one of three Rhine bridges that connect Mainz with Wiesbaden and the state of Hesse. Like almost all other German Rhine bridges, the former bridge had been destroyed in World War II. The bridge was rebuilt in the early 1950s and named after the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss.…

There are reconstructions of print shops and Gutenberg's hand press, an exhibition of incunabula, and the first two Gutenberg bibles are on display in a strong room. They also have a section devoted to the Far East with colored woodcarvings and prints from Japan, China and Korea. There is even an exhibition on the electronic future of books. Most displays have an English translation.…

Unique to Mainz is the Museum of Ancient Sea Travel contains the remains of five 5th century 6 Roman warship wrecks salvaged from the Rhine in the 1980s. True-to-life replicas were re-constructed based on these originals. Visitors also have the opportunity to glimpse behind the scenes in the research laboratory and in the museum’s workshops.…

A few years ago, when a shopping center now named Römerpassage (,,Roman Shopping Wall") was built, the construction workers found the remnants of what used to be a temple in the Roman city of Mainz. So, nowadays, you can visit this site inside the shopping center.…

was built in the early 1970s by Danish architects, who used many tons Swedish marble for the façade. Considered modern at the time it was built, the city hall is not very popular today, many consider it too monumental, some even ugly.…

the former city Residenz of the Archbishop of Mainz. It is one of the important Renaissance buildings in Germany. Today the east wing houses the Museum of Roman and Germanic History.

Beautiful, leafy square in central Mainz with the fountain said to represent the jesters and fun of Mainz's fastnacht celebration.

The Department of Antiquities traces the cultural history of the Rhineland from prehistory to the present.

Romanesque cathedral – one of Germany's oldest; others are in: Worms, Speyer

today Regional-Parlament of Rhineland-Palatinate

with lots of restaurants and (night) clubs.

Cathedral Museum & Treasury, Church art

world-famous Chagall blue windows.

leading from Rococo to Classicism

Italian renaissance on the Rhine