Rhine Valley travel - Lonely Planet | Germany, Europe
Between Rüdesheim and Koblenz, the Rhine cuts deeply through the Rhenish slate mountains, meandering between hillside castles and steep fields of wine-producing grapes. This is Germany’s landscape at its most dramatic – forested hillsides alternate with craggy cliffs and near-vertical terraced vineyards.
Must-see attractions in Rhine Valley - Lonely Planet
Discover the best attractions in Rhine Valley including Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Burg Rheinstein, and Pfalzgrafstein.
Burg Rheinstein | Rhine Valley, Germany - Lonely Planet
In the 1820s, privately owned Rheinstein, 6km downriver from Bingen, became the first Rhine castle to be converted – by Prussian royalty (a branch of the Hohenzollerns) – into a romantic summer residence complete with turrets and battlements.
Rhine Valley, Germany | Attractions - Lonely Planet
Across the river from the village of Kaub, the boat-shaped toll castle Pfalzgrafstein, built in 1326, perches on an island in the middle of the Rhine. A once-dangerous rapid here (since modified) forced boats to use the right-hand side of the river, where …
Burg Reichenstein | Rhine Valley, Germany - Lonely Planet
Rhine Valley Login Save Looming above the village of Trechtingshausen, 8km downriver from Bingen, mighty Burg Reichenstein harbours a lavish collection of furnishings, armour, hunting trophies (including one of Germany's largest collection of antlers) and cast-iron oven slabs.
Rhine Valley, Germany | Attractions - Lonely Planet
At the tip of a narrow breakwater jutting into the Rhine, a bronze sculpture of Loreley's famous maiden perches lasciviously atop a rocky platform. Access…
8 of the best places to visit in Germany - Lonely Planet
2024年5月9日 · 1. The Middle Rhine Valley (the Rhine Gorge) As the Rhine, Germany’s second-longest river, flows south from Koblenz, it cuts a gorge through a gasp-inducing landscape of vineyards and castles.
Mäuseturm | Rhine Valley, Germany | Attractions - Lonely Planet
On the right bank of the Rhine, 118m above the river, this fortress proved indestructible to all but Napoleonic troops, who levelled it in 1801. To prove…
Siegfried’s Mechanisches Musikkabinett | Rhine Valley, Germany ...
Rhine Valley Login Save Situated 50m to the left from the top of Drosselgasse, this fun museum has a collection of 350 18th- and 19th-century mechanical musical instruments that play themselves as you’re shown around on the compulsory 45-minute tour.
Must-see attractions Koblenz, Rhine Valley - Lonely Planet
A vision of crenellated towers, ornate gables and medieval-style fortifications, Schloss Stolzenfels rises above the Rhine’s left bank 5km south of the…