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Mainz Highlights: Cathedral, Gutenberg & Chagall

Red-sandstone cathedral, Gutenberg's printing revolution, Chagall's blue windows and Roman Mogontiacum — one old-town loop by the Rhine.

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What's the walk about?

Welcome to Mainz, the two-thousand-year-old cathedral city on the Rhine and the place where Johannes Gutenberg changed the world with movable type. This gentle old-town loop threads together the essential Mainz: the red-sandstone Electoral Palace, the market square beneath the towering Romanesque cathedral of St. Martin, the printing treasures of the Gutenberg Museum, the storybook half-timbered Kirschgarten, Marc Chagall's luminous blue windows in St. Stephan, and the excavated Roman theatre that recalls the legionary town of Mogontiacum. From the electors' residence to the medieval Wood Tower and back to the river, you'll walk through printing, faith, art, and empire — all within an easy stroll of the Altstadt.

What you'll see

  1. 1

    Kurfürstliches Schloss (Electoral Palace)

    Palace

  2. 2

    Marktplatz

    square

  3. 3

    Gutenberg Museum

    Museum

  4. 4

    Mainz Cathedral (Mainzer Dom, St. Martin)

    cathedral

  5. 5

    Kirschgarten

    square

  6. 6

    Church of St. Stephan

    Church

  7. 7

    Römisches Theater (Roman Theatre)

    historic_site

  8. 8

    Holzturm (Wood Tower)

    tower

  9. 9

    Rhine Promenade (Fischtorplatz)

    Promenade

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