Here's why a small Rhine Valley town with a hilltop castle-turned-hotel captures Rick Steves' attention and the magic of ...

Travelers who want to lose themselves in medieval fairy-tale-like castles should visit Europe's most castle-lined river full ...

For anyone with an interest in how things work, the ancient process of moving ships from high to low water (or vice versa) is ...

The river Rhine is estimated to carry between 3,000 and 4,700 metric tons of macrolitter—pieces of litter larger than 25 ...

Glide over Basel, where the historic Old Town, the majestic red sandstone Münster Cathedral, and the modern architecture of ...

You might say photographers Aude Boissaye and Sebastien Randé enjoy a river connection. As children growing up in eastern France near the Rhine, they learned to respect the river’s power and beauty.

Citizen scientists help in University of Bonn study showing river carries up to 4,700 tonnes of ‘macrolitter’ annually ...

Even under perpetually gloomy skies and unseasonably steady rain that caused flooding and disrupted the itineraries of numerous river cruises, it’s still easy to see why Germany’s longest river is ...

Reporting from Cologne, Germany — The new stomping ground Cynthia Medzech and her dog Berfin discovered along the Rhine River in Germany normally rests 10 feet under water and about 200 feet from ...

A man walks his dog through the empty bed of the river Moselle near the confluence with the Rhine river, Europe's most important waterways in Koblenz, Germany.REUTERS A family walks next to a puddle ...

A hot, dry summer has made parts of one of Europe's most important waterways, the Rhine River, too shallow for fully laden ships to pass. A hot, dry summer in Europe has made parts of the Rhine River ...