Sail through the majestic Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to the romantic Rheinstein Castle where you're ...

AmaWaterways offers several itineraries that feature the Rhine River in 2026. For an extended cruise — and one that includes another iconic European waterway — consider the 11-night itinerary along ...

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. Rheinstein, ...

Visiting the Rhine River Valley never gets old. It’s storybook Germany, a fairy-tale world of legends, rugged cliffs, half-timbered towns and robber-baron castles. One of Europe’s great thrills is ...

A cruise along the Rhine is an enchanting way to explore Europe’s cultural and historical heartland. Fairytale castles perch high on craggy hills, spires of grand cathedrals reach for the clouds and ...

“Oh, look, there’s another one,” cried the woman behind me. She could not contain her excitement at seeing yet another castle perched on a hillside. The Sun Deck of the Scenic Opal proved the perfect ...

River cruises in Europe are all the rage these days. River cruises are, in fact, one of the fastest-growing segments of the travel industry. The popularity of cruising the continent’s scenic rivers ...

Visitors to the Rhine River valley rave about the stunning views of castles and the charming little towns surrounding them. Although the high-profile Rhine castles, such as Schloss Drachenburg and the ...

Jostling through crowds of Germans and tourists in the Rhine River village of Bacharach, I climb to the sun deck of the ferry and grab a chair. With the last passenger barely aboard, the gangplank is ...

Nowhere in the world does castles quite like Europe. From the gilded, decadent luxury of France's riverbank châteaux and the soaring fairytale turrets of Sintra in Portugal to the grim, looming ...

Few rivers in Europe evoke as much fairy-tale charm as the Rhine, winding past vineyards, hilltops, and historic towns while hosting more castles than any other river on the continent. Stretching some ...