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Augustinerkirche
Part of the local Catholic seminary, the classically baroque Augustinerkirche, built in 1768, features an elaborate organ loft and a delicate ceiling fresco by Johann Baptist Enderle. Unlike so many other such structures in Germany, it has never been destroyed.
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Dom
Mainz' famed cathedral, entered from the Marktplatz, is one of Germany's most magnificent houses of worship. The focal point of the Altstadt, this richly detailed 'mountain' of reddish sandstone, topped by an octagonal tower, went through a literal 'baptism by fire' when the original burned down just one day before its consecration in 1066. Most of what you see today is quintessential 12th-century Romanesque.
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Dom & Diözesanmuseum
Off the late Gothic cloister, accessible from inside features bejewelled ritual objects from as far back as the 10th century and 15th- and 16th-century tapestries (English guide pamphlet available).
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Druckladen
In the Gutenberg Museum's Druckladen , across tiny Seilergasse, you can try out Gutenberg's technology yourself - on the condition that you're at least five years old. You'll be issued with a smock (the unique odour of printers' ink may, for many, conjure up the nobility of making the written word available to the masses - but the goop is hell to get out of fabric) and instructed in the art of hand-setting type - backwards, of course.
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Gewölbehallen
The Gewölbehallen has artwork from the Dom, including sculptures from the rood screen (1239) - the work of the renowned Master of Naumburg - that portray the saved and the, well, not-so-saved.
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Gutenberg Museum
A heady experience for anyone excited by books, the Museum chronicles the history of the technology that made the world as we know it - including this guidebook - possible. Besides historical presses, old typesetting machines and several rooms on pre-Gutenberg printing in Korea, Japan and China, you can admire hand-copied manuscripts as well as printed masterpieces such as Gutenberg's original Bible. For a 1925 re-creation of Gutenberg's print shop, head to the basement.
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Landesmuseum Mainz
The rich and far-reaching collection of the Landesmuseum Mainz, housed in the former prince-elector's stables, traces the region's cultural history from the Stone Age to the present. Treasures include the famous Jupitersäule, a Roman triumphal column from the 1st century.
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Museum für Antike Schiffahrt
In 1981 excavations for a hotel spectacularly unearthed the remains of five wooden ships of the Romans' Rhine flotilla, once used to thwart Germanic tribes trying to intrude upon Roman settlements. They are now on display - along with two full-size replicas - in the Museum für Antike Schiffahrt .
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St Peterskirche
St Peterskirche shows off the sumptuous glory of the rococo style and is noted for its richly adorned pulpit and altars.
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St-Ignatius-Kirche
St-Ignatius-Kirche marks the transition from rococo to neoclassicism. The sculpture outside is a copy of one made by Hans Backoffen (the original is in the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum).
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