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Frequently Asked Questions

Right at the foot of the ring of ramparts, on the Rhine. The town is walked on the flat along the river; only the heights involve steps.
Sixteen towers still stand guard above the vines. In the Middle Ages there were twenty-one, linked by a wall. The ensemble ranks among the best preserved fortifications of the romantic Rhine.
Yes, the wall walk is freely accessible. You move from tower to tower, slate roofs on one side and the broad ribbon of the river on the other. Allow an hour of unhurried walking, views and photographs included.
The wall walk, the two churches, a riesling tasting in a cellar in the centre, then the climb to the Schönburg if time allows. This is a call where you walk.
The castle that has watched the valley since the twelfth century, burned by French troops in 1689 and rebuilt in the nineteenth. It is now a hotel and restaurant; you climb by a path through the vines, about twenty minutes with a few unashamed pauses.
To the south the Liebfrauenkirche blazes dark red, Gothic and proud, with a gilded altarpiece surprising in a parish this size. To the north the Martinskirche answers in immaculate white from its knoll. Both are visible from afar.
Yes. The town lies in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley section inscribed as World Heritage in 2002, the stretch that lines up fortresses at a pace found nowhere else.
The Pfalzgrafenstein, that fortified toll station sitting in mid-current, is just upstream, with the Gutenfels on the slope above. The Lorelei, the most famous rock on the river, is also upstream: most itineraries pass it the same day.
Yes. The slate slopes yield taut, mineral rieslings that the cellars in the centre serve by the glass without ceremony. In early September the wine festival turns the square into an open-air banquet.
Walking shoes for the rampart steps and the climb to the Schönburg, and a windbreaker: the wind in the Rhine gorge rarely lets up, even in fine weather.