Boat trips on the Moselle
During the summer season there are regular cruises and occasional excursions by boat starting from the city dock "Zurlauben" (bus 2). There are boats for the Moselle villages of Luxembourg and a boat service to Pfalzel, a former residential palace a few miles downstream from Trier. A harbour for sporting boats and yachts is provided upstream from the dam near Monaise Manor. Contact Tourist-Inormation for further details (Tel +49 – 651 – 978080)
Address: most departures are from Zurlaubener Ufer
Tel: +49 (0)651 - 978080 (Tourist Info)

Cable car trip to the Weisshaus
There is a small cable car at Moselle riverside, which connects the Moselle River with the "Weisshaus" up the hill. Around Weisshaus, which nowadays is a nice cafe and restaurant there are plenty of walking and jogging facilities and also a wild anim preserve. Ground station cable car: Zurlauben, 15 min walk from the Porta Nigra.

Pfalzel
Summer residence of Roman emperors and of the Trier prince electors; collegiate church, city wall, old houses. (Bus 8, railway, in summer boat service from Zurlauben).

One of the lesser-known gems outside the city of Trier itself is the incorporated village of Pfalzel. As the name, derived from palatiolum ( = little palace), indicates, the Late Roman emperors had a fortress-like palace erected in this strategic place a few miles downriver, not far from a recently discovered second Roman bridge. In the Middle Ages, the palace parts were used as walls for the church of a convent (later turned into a college), for basements, barns, and houses. Today, the Roman remains are still visible in several buildings, sometimes up to a height of two stories; the rectory, for instance, has two Gothic and two Roman walls.

A charming way to approach Pfalzel (May-October) is by boat from the Trier dock at Zurlauben (about 30 minutes). The Pfalzel dock is just outside the 16th century town wall. From here it is a short walk to the church (Roman walls, Roman mosaic floor, Roman marble floor) and parsonage, the gate of the archbishop's castle, the Renaissance administrative center, all set in a chain of picturesque buildings. At the dock there is a conveniently located café partly built into the old college cloister.

Open Air museum Roscheid
A real family museum! How did people live, work and learn 150 years ago? Here you find the answers. Lots of objects (machines, tools, furniture, clothes etc.) and old frame-work houses arranged in the surrounding of a beautifully situated old farm estate with garden. This museum presents the folk culture of the European Saar-Lor-Lux region. You find the museum a few kilometres behind the new neighborhood of Konz-Roscheid, beyond Konz-Karthaus (15 minutes by car from Trier city centre).

Hours of business:
Tuesday-Friday 9-17, Saturday, Sunday and Holidays 10-18, last admission one hour before closing. Open in the winter too! Closed 12/24 - 1/1.

For more detailed information have a look at their English Webpage.