Most of the castles along the Rhine were built during the Middle Ages, before gunpowder came into general use. The outer curtain walls and an inner shield wall with crenulated battlements and arrow ...

Castles have stood on this site for centuries, being destroyed and rebuilt since Roman times. Like many of the castles of the Rhine, Klopp Castle was used by the Archbishop of Mainz to collect tolls ...

Castle-surfing doesn't get any easier. Following are the castles that are situated by the Danube and Rhine rivers that lent themselves for prime viewing from my deck chair. Though I used my Nikon D850 ...

In Germany’s Rhine Valley, several centuries-old castles sit just minutes from one another, and visiting them can be particularly enjoyable as the foliage changes color in the fall.

From Roman times, the Rhine was the commercial artery of Europe’s heartland. Noblemen, and the merely rich, built their castles, palaces and feudal estates along it.

Burg Lahneck offers a commanding view of the Lahn River near its confluence with the Rhine on May 6, 2023. The castle inspired a poem by Goethe titled "Geistesgruss," meaning "Ghost Greetings." ...

Cruise along the Rhine—Germany on one side, France on the other. Discover Alsace, whose dual French and German heritage has given it fabulous food and a winemaking tradition that goes back to the ...

For me, a Rhine cruise offers the ultimate in scenic splendor and cultural diversity, of France and Germany in particular. (And I love the regional cuisine.) ...