Where the Rhine meets the Moselle
A 2,000-year-old city at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle — the dramatic "German Corner", a cable car to a great fortress, and the gateway to the castle-studded Rhine Gorge.




Signature local dishes worth seeking out.
Walkable centre; cable car and Rhine boats.
Take a Rhine cruise upstream past the legendary Lorelei rock and its ribbon of castles.
Generally safe — exercise normal travel awareness.
Old-town wine taverns.