The highlights of Erfurt are really manyfold and make that more than 1260 years old Capital of Thuringia to one of the nicest cities in Germany. The heart of Erfurt with about 200.000 inhabitants is the lovely restored and well preserved medieval Old Town, which can be conveniently discovered by food though its pedestrian zone. An impressive mixture of narrow winding lanes, half timbered houses, pompous houses plus those many churches make up the charme of Erfurt’s city center, which is overtopped by the Dom. At the Dom square you find an unique ensemble consisting of Dom St. Marien and church Severi, which is the landmark of Erfurt. Impressed by that majestic appearance nobody would hesitate to climb up the 70 stairs to the portal of Dom to see its interior. It reminds on the Middle Ages, when the city grew up to an important and rhich commercial town. That time Martin Luther was the most prominent personality, after his studies at the Erfurt university he entered the convent Augustinerkloster as a monk and later was ordained as a priest.