- Bad Homburg is a town below the Taunus Mountains which is now a suburb of Frankfurt in the State of Hesse in Germany.
- Nearby is Saalburg, which has a reconstruction of a Roman Cohort Fort, an excavated Vicus and archeological museum and is a Unesco World Heritage Site.
Roman Sites
- Saalburg Roman Fort and Museum
- Located 4 miles (7km) northwest of Bad Homburg.
- This is a reconstruction of a Roman Cohort Fort and excavated Vicus (civilian settlement) which includes an Archeological museum with tours of the site.
- Saalburg Museum
- Limes Germanicus
- The Ditch and Bank of the Limes Germanicus can be followed nearby and the watchtowers are either partly preserved or visible as mounds.
Roman Roads
- Limes Germanicus
- Starting from the mouth of the Rhine, this fortification ran up the Rhine towards Mainz, then overland to Regensburg on the Danube. Here it joined the Danube Limes.
- A Roman military road ran along the west bank of the Rhine and connected all the Rhine Forts.
Saalburg Roman Fort