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Porta Praetoria, Regensburg

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  • August 14, 2017
    Beautiful remnants of the glory of the Roman Empire, and the DNA of European Culture. Porta Praetoria serves as an actual foundation for the walls of buildings within the St Peters Cathedral complex a...  more »
  • August 8, 2017
    Limes-guarded the borders of the Roman Empire, here from the raids of the Germanic tribes. At the beginning of our era fortress, the Sentinel Tower stockades ditches and ramparts stretched in the current Germany on the Rhine to the Danube. In 2005, the ruins of the Limes were included in the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage. Interestingly, as in the Roman and Chinese Empires similar political-military situation led to similar engineering decisions.
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  • August 5, 2017
    Some fragments of an ancient Roman gate have been incorporated into modern structures, here. If you happen to be walking by, it's mildly interesting. But don't go out of your way to see it.  more »
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  • Is just a piece of a larger then gate... Not more and not less
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  • Not much impressive is how old that is, but it to see.
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  • Not very impressive remains of a Roman city gate.
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  • Old building with much history!
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  • In relation to its historical importance rather unimpressive
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