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think you already know what the topic will be on this trip. exactly. i'm following the footsteps of the romans through germany, and you get to come along. ah, i starting cologne, which was an important city even in roman time. ah, i also follow the roman border fortifications lehman and i'll show you of the reconstructed book roman ports. ah, ah. in ancient times, cologne was called colonial club aga lindsay on ah, dense houses,

monumental buildings and a couple of st shape the cityscape. today the cologne cathedral towers above the metropolis as its principal, landmark ah, remains from the roman era have been preserved in many places. right next to the cathedral is a part of the old city gate. for over 4 centuries, cologne played a vital part of the frontier of the roman empire. the leemis major empire state roads converged here from the south west and north. they carried goods. people at news from the whole world to the capital of the province of germania, inferior and to date, wrote to run where they were 1st laid out in ancient cologne. 2000

years ago, this was one of the main axis of roman cologne. well, and today it's one of the most important shopping streets in the city. she, like i said, are traces of the romans has also been found on the ryans opposite bank into long diets. the outlines of fort the roman empire with huge and the romans made it very clear where the fear of influence begins. so they both forts and watch towers, and also used obvious natural landmarks such as the rhine the around 2000 years ago, the roman empire stretched from the atlantic ocean to asia minor. and from africa to the north sea. part of the border ran along the river right

up to $30000.00 soldiers was stationed on it, facing the germanic tribes. the wet lim as, as the frontier is known, began in rhineland, palatinate crossed north west lady netherlands and ended at the north sea coast in 2021. but the mess germanic coast was named a world heritage site. in january 2020, the netherlands and the germans states north, ryan westphalia and rhineland palatinate submitted a joint application to you, and ask. as the wet lemurs has been added to, to frontier sections already named world heritage, one is adrian war. and the aunt and i was in britain the other, the upper germanic, and raised the limits. it begins south foam and runs 550 kilometers. starting in right and books as follows. another river, the danube, from the barrier through austria and finally to bulgaria. this section 2 is now on

the list of applicants to ah, in cologne. i drop by at the romano germanic museum exhibits the archaeological heritage of the city and its environs with an emphasis on the roman iran staff member cutting jessica shells me around me. hold on, please. cologne was in fact, the capital of the province manya inferior. so it was the administrative center, the governor who administered the entire providence resided here, which is why cologne was so important. and this is where the very earliest romans came to live on the rhine. people came from all over the roman empire to live in

this vibrant city on the rhine. for example, this man from spain. why was it so important to him to have on the tombstone if he is or was the citizen of cologne? what about and often visually had a huge deal with apparently he felt very much easier and chrome was in fact an attractive city. and roman times it had a flourishing economy. commerce was burgeoning. they were crossman. you could make really good money here. you can see that he was a roman citizen by the tow. guy took the typical roman road he's wearing here, but not all of us. citizens of cologne ran around like fish. they looked a bit different here on the frontier, far away from rome, via we can have a look at that over here. what do you notice? maybe especially a turban. it can also be the halo ending signs. i'm did didn't disconnect our. yes,

it does look a bit like that, but the idea about the hat was better given that this is what's known as an indian phone. it part of the cost of the native booby and in particular married women. and in fact, the people of this area, including the romans, who moved here, adapt to the local climate in winter. it was cold and wet, so they didn't wear linen tunic 6 my kind but thick will load my coats and maybe even trousers, even if they were seen as barbaric. but they kept you warmer than you would be wearing tunic tunic up like that. has that mean that this is a mix of cultures the germanic, and the romans are good now, other than precisely, the romans was very pragmatic. when they came across something they thought was a good idea. they adopted it or not our tour, at least on past or late the crafted glasses. i can hardly believe there are 2000 years old. this special cup is the most precious piece, and the collection alone was

a major centre of class production. you got the materials they needed to make it also found near by and that's what the romans did an abundance and then traded very, very saw with the you are the love for kids to plot for can not go past the sandals, but you comp, whether or not these will pass you flag and apparently when it came to creativity, the romans were well ahead of their time. cologne is over 2000 years old, but there are even older cities here, for example, tree or kenton, or warns, and they all claim the title of german. nice oldest city. well, but who is right? the

captain of whom? they'd all love to lay clean to the title. germany's oldest city trick claims, the longest history as a roman city, as opposed to a military camp or settlement. the true was called a good trigger. and for those a century with a population of around $70000.00. it was the biggest city north of the else. it was even briefly one of the capitals of the roman empire during the reign of emperor constantine. the number of structures remained to bear witness to this golden age. the points of negroes are black gate, for instance. when was the city actually founded?

most sources mentioned italian around 1816 b. c. eat? ah. others with the stove? the coveted title of germany is oldest city on volumes. the council established a settlement on the spot around $5000.00 to be see later the romans are thought to have built 14 kent. and on the other hand, the 1st town in germany to be mentioned in writing, in a book written by jug or 1st struggle and 18 c. b. count bought in. the romans called it was the administrative centre unseat of the governor of the roman province of rafia. a couple of other german cities are quite old, for example, to both settlements as well. the question of

germany's oldest city has yet to be answered. the conflicting opinions are often cleared by local patriotism and different criteria, but they all have their long histories in common, posted by archaeological evidence. ah, i left cologne and trebled south for an hour to void. the point where the lameness branches off from the right. my destination is the roman world, living museum. how heavy is it chain mail, shirt, hours, selling and trading done. here visitors are invited to touch, take part and try things out. of course, i can't resist the visitors to the roman world. i can learn more about the location,

origins and function of the ancient leemis and ryan learn the lesson a, reconstruct this section of the wall trench and tell us a fence makes it easier to visualize. why was the leemis actually built? well, the romans tried to expand their empire to the north, but there were the students and instead of waiting endless battles against them, they drew a line. the leemis, the romans suffered enormous losses and what became known as the various disaster in the year 9 back then. 20000 soldiers died in the chute of birth forest. and you can still find traces of these battles today. ah, the

the me quintillion virus, give me back. my legions, emperor, crossed at the said to have cried out when he was told his general doris had lost 3 entire legions along with 6 auxiliary cohorts. in the battle of toy book forrest, the attackers were dramatic. rebels commanded by arminius, according to ancient historians, the slaughter went on for several days on a field, many kilometers long. but where exactly did this faithful battle take place? the most likely site is one found near cake. caesar, north of us network research, and the battle known as the varian disaster has been going on here for 30 years. not only is cake the the a fascinating excavations, but an archaeological monument and museum the

several markers in the open air give a broad overview of the course of the battle. the park is over 20 hector's in area. the steel plates mark the romans march along a narrow path between the woods and the more its still unknown. what took place here what is known is that after losing this battle, the roman forces withdrew to the western banks of the rhine. sporadic forays were made into germania for another 7 years, but the romans lacked the infrastructure and the germanic tribes. realists style attacks more them eventually the romans gave up and fortified their existing boarders. ah,

ah, germany salinas wrote one of the countries many holiday. ruth picks up in fine boy . it traces the former roman frontier for 700 kilometers driggers perch on the danube. i followed a stretch of it. brown science like this pointed the way as an app with either an interactive map or a brochure. it's helpful for quickly locating the archaeological digs. the reconstructions views such as believe, miss tower, and her side over the over lloyd. i'm look a still cannot offer you today. i would use antonio. antonio. close the door was

wonderful of the li, misty, the wholeness as they are called gift tours. at the various li, miss sights, monthly, nobler has been showing visitors around in his shop for over 10 years now. what was the exact function of the dollar toward movies and anybody to him from the towers? they kept you on the lee mess with the border between the roman empire and jamalia laughed. they always had the town surroundings in view. if someone approached with hostile intent, i could give a signal from the town than happened to him all that he couldn't have done it with a mirror. if his son was on the polished brass would have done the job, i still put it as missing. that's why did schubert hanging here, that is a toolbar here. if it was foggy, they could have given the signal with his own atlanta at night with a torn out with fire. bitten for your time. can i try to try it?

it was just harder to me. i couldn't do it, but disclosed until news minutes. oh yes. now we have it sounds a bit like an elephant. and claudius antonio's had another surprise in store for me with a little more. they told me this is the more i told you, it's a cheese pace made from sheets, cheese mixed with hard sugar intended. okay, good. i will try. they are gonna load up properly. hundreds of delicious glow deals. if it's super delicious, all gets home and now comes to move some wine beverage. the romans enjoined

montgomery, we've taken aperitif today. an apple, the teeth comes in it is you make this dinner that this might take a liter riesling wine thing, 200 grams of honey to it. and a nice tip of pepper. and then i let that steep for a while on the y fi pull the code here and the news was a and also delicious. next to the tower, a roman garden has been recreated. this is a roman sundial. also the romans like to drink wine. and this is what a roman herb garden could have looked like. i pressed on to the shade and it leads to a little forward with earthworks and the pelvis. ha, the foundations have been reconstructed to show the ruse.

can you imagine how it used to look here? well, i can, in any case, many reconstructions have been made and not only along the lima, there are traces of the romans in many places in germany, for example, in thorough land. a whole villa was reconstructed there and turned into an archaeological open air museum. well, take a look at that. ah, ah, this is how the privileged romans of the province is once lived in the country. dinners with well man, acute gardens, knows a floors and all the amenities the ancient world had to offer the best place to get an impression of this knife is there's been a bog, a roman country estate near in silence,

most of the valley. it was meticulously reconstructed, a top the original ruins, the only one of its kind in the world. in the flea, the head of the house, the dominant, receives his guests characteristic, all the coffee ceilings, frescoes and half columns. decorating the rooms at one time the entire hall most likely had most a close eye . of course, the village also had a roman boss with a dressing when cold and hot boss and a kind of sitting room, the tepid darian, everything together would have been quite effective. it's impressing friends and business partners. good food was every bit as essential to the roman

lifestyle. as many 30 courses might be served up at a banquet, prepared and kitchen like this one thing to be such eccentric dishes and stuff, mingles homes and hazel mice ah, normally in non pandemic times, the roman days would have been held that the august complete with market and gladiator battle ah, ah, took out some of our favorite travel picks on instagram. followers on dw, travel the know back to the li miss wrote me a site you see is the reconstructed, romans,

i booked for to your frankfurt on the archeologist and got shows me around the premises. i've seen that, you know, look pretty much the way we see it right now. it didn't it roughly i, this is sean baton is not run by. it's very close to it. but we're dealing with 2 different time periods for the reconstruction. a large part of the buildings were put up around 1900 and then another 2 complexes went up after 2000. but i wasn't and of course, the state of research from 190-0100 was very different from 2000. and so the proposals for reconstruction are also different to the course. in the course of time, we've simply made new discoveries, kids of 100. in ancient times, 600 men were stationed here as a border patrol. they lived in these barracks, the man, the company corridors are secured with a roman lock, well known as

a lock and sliding bolt through. and now you see, if you can get it open off my phone, you don't use your patients lock and sliding bolt. i can't do it, i give up as you hold it like this. if you an s lighted 1st in here, then you turn it in. so the bit points in this direction site then you lift it up and you pull it over here and jiggle a little long catches a little bit hot on and then it's open still. all right, and you go and i should have 8 men ones share this little 2 room apartment. it's different. now we're entering the basilica. the

great hall. yeah, that's the part of the print. keep the staff building in the center of the for i know it's a large open hall where the entire company could assemble to for celebration. this is going to file trill events or just for drills on wet rainy days and talking on the subject of drills. it's about time i had to look at the arms and learn some roman combat techniques. first fear throwing then archery sorta the other the most. so the 1st thing we do is spread the bowstring onto the boat. awesome. and this is how we do it. often it takes a little strength and then we use a little trailing in climb into the bow fun and profit behind our legs. and so we can slip the bowstring onto the limiting. it's all going feet and it looks easier than it is. but after several attempts, i've got it and we can get started. does that look at the generic?

don't hold it too long, you'll get cramps. so get the done with me. and what would the legionnaires training be without sword fighting cap? limitation corruption. in fact, they would train using wicker shields instead of the proper one and wouldn't sort this via their heavier than the real ones. so they made for wonderful training because of course, you'd build up more muscles, strength, and endurance and you'd last longer in battle. if anything came from congressman for that age, you don't get hurt. exactly the like it gives up on a damage damaged. yes. yeah. the

here at the saga, my search for traces is over and i would say mission accomplish. i learned a lot and i hope you to, to so sir, next time and as the romans say valley to goodbye me the, who's the news, the news,

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