Time for Impressions Boppard's history is similar to that of a walk through almost 2000 years of occupation and culture. The original Roman fortress wall was folded into the medieval city wall, and lengths of it are still pretty well preserved. Within the ancient building itself there are still wonderful chances of discovering things for yourself. Romans and early Christians, Franconian tribes, later the French and the Prussians have all left their traces here. While emperors. monarchs and noblemen have come and gone in their time, traders, boat-men and bargees, ferrymen and others have accompanied them down the ages. All of them once gave the city its heyday in the Middle Ages. The Electoral Castle, the Provost at Hirzenbach and St. Severus Church, as well as the beautifully timbered buildings of the Old Town, here and there dotted with 18th century baroque churches all decorate the town, all add to its elegan-ce, and do much to invite the guest to relax and take it all in. A stroll through this town goes back to the time of the 'Rhine romance' along the promenade on whose flanks the fine villas and guesthouses now stand. These give the city a Mediterranean flair and it's not for nothing that the town has been called the 'Nice on the Rhine'. However, la dolce vita does not simply have to do with the fashionable priorities of the past, but with the palpable present. Time for Impressions 14 Choir Stallf, Karmeliterkirche St. Severus Church on the Market Square Schnuggelelsje Historical City