Domschatz

Trier


To peer into Christian history, from late Antiquity through to Romanesque, Gothic, baroque and the 19th and 20th centuries, head to the Domschatz. Along with dazzling ecclesiastical equipment, there are medieval illuminated manuscripts.


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