Mainz

Tim, Rebecca and I visited the 2,000 year-old city of Mainz today. It was here, during the 15th century, that Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press. Time was short so we didn't get to see an original Gutenberg Bible as we would have liked, but rather contented ourselves with visiting the Mainz Cathedral and Altstadt (Old town).
This Renaissance fountain dates from 1526 and I couldn't resist taking a picture of the cat at the bottom.

The cathedral has a construction starting date of 975.


Below are some ghoulish pieces that caught our eye.



This skeleton helped guard one of the crypts that held, according to our guidebook, "bits of the 22 saints of Mainz."

Beautiful murals painted in the 19th century

In the Altstadt
You cannot escape the influence of America, even in the medieval section of a German city! The text in the center of the concert ad reads: Put your head on my shoulder, Diana, My Way, u.v.a.