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European Rivers Sip Your Wine While Watching Picture- Perfect European Scenery Breeze Past – Castles, Medieval Villages and Fields of Flowers ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd Welcome to European Rivers Sip your wine while watching picture- perfect European scenery breeze past – castles, medieval villages and fields of flowers. European river cruises are elegantly casual affairs, perfect for exploring the arts and culture that beckon ashore. Active travellers, nature and culture aficionados, CRUISE PORTS as well as families of all sizes, have discovered that cruising down a quiet, traffic-free river, surrounded by scenic riverfront views, is an ideal way to see Europe. This change in European travel is unfolding in real time, as each year more and more cruise lines offer immersive learning experiences such as EUROPEAN cooking classes and home visits, or activities like bicycle trips and long hikes. In fact, a river cruise is often the best way to experience destinations for the first time. RIVERS And, of course, there’s the food. Many cruise lines offer a regional menu or serve almost solely local cuisine. They know their guests are keen to indulge and cook accordingly. Look for cruises offering cooking classes with the chef as an added bonus. By necessity, European riverboats are far smaller than the vessels that cruise the Mediterranean and A GUIDE TO PERFECT DAYS ON SHORE Baltic Seas. Passenger numbers are usually fewer than 200, making these cruises a far more social and intimate experience. More frequent stops mean much more onshore activity. Additionally, there are no inside cabins on a Euro- pean river cruise. Cabins come with a large window at the very least, and a great many have their own balcony or floor-to-ceiling panoramic views. You might even forego the ship’s entertainment just to watch the scenery breeze past. Andy Symington, Mark Baker, Oliver Berry, Kerry Christiani, Gregor Clark, picture-perfect European Marc Di Duca, Steve Fallon, Damian Harper, Catherine Le Nevez, Leonid scenery: castles, medieval Ragozin, Kevin Raub, Simon Richmond, Brendan Sainsbury, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Regis St Louis, Benedict Walker, Nicola Williams. villages and fields of flowers Passau, Germany (p88) MICHAEL RUNKEL/ROBERTHARDING/GETTY IMAGES © Barents Sea GREENLAND Greenland 2 Sea ^# Murmansk 0 1,000 Kilometers Tromsø^# 0 500 miles FINLAND White Sea #_ ICELAND Norwegian ^# REYKJAVÍK Sea Contents Rovaniemi VOLGA & ^# RUSSIAN Luleå WATERWAYS Plan Your Trip p201 European Rivers’ Western Danube, Seine, France 115 Austria & ^# Top 12 ........................ 4 Eiffel Tower .............. 118 ^# Petrozavodsk Trondheim ^# SWEDEN Vaasa Need to Know ..........16 Germany 69 Musée du Louvre .....120 ^#Sundsvall RUSSIA Hotspots For... .........18 Schloss Schönbrunn, Cathédrale Notre ^# Tampere Month by Month .....20 Vienna .........................72 Dame de Paris ..........124 NORWAY ga ^# St Petersburg Vol Get Inspired ............ 23 Kunsthistorisches Walking Tour: Arty #_ ^# HELSINKI Yaroslavl ^# ^# Choose Your Museum, Vienna ........74 Montmartre ..............126 Shetland Bergen OSLO #_ Nizhny #_ TALLINN Cruise...................... 24 Walking Tour: Vienna’s Paris ............................ 128 #_ Novgorod Orkney STOCKHOLM ESTONIA Tver ^# Sustainable Rouen .......................... 138 ^# Historic Centre ..........76 NORTHERN Pskov Cruising ..................30 Le Havre .......................141 ELBE #_ Exploring RHINE Gotland p143 MOSCOW Family Time Nuremberg’s SCOTLAND p35 RĪGA#_ LATVIA Ashore .................... 32 Altstadt ......................78 Glasgow Baltic Elbe, Czech NORTHERN ^# ^# Edinburgh North Sea ^#Smolensk Vienna, Austria ............ 80 Sea LITHUANIA IRELAND Belfast COPENHAGEN Passau, Germany .........88 Republic & ^# DENMARK #_ #_ Kaliningrad DNIEPER Regensburg, Germany 143 MOSELLE ^# VILNIUS #_ MINSK NORTH #\ MAIN p231 Northern Rhine, Galway p167 Germany ...................... 90 Prague Castle ..........146 ATLANTIC #_DUBLIN p265 OCEAN IRELAND Hamburg BELARUS Germany 35 Nuremberg, Walking Tour: Prague ^# #\ ENGLAND Kölner Dom, Germany .......................92 River Walk ................150 Cork WALES NETHERLANDS E POLAND WARSAW ^# lbe #_ AMSTERDAM #_ #_ BERLIN Kharkiv Cologne ......................38 Frauenkirche, Cardiff ^# #_ KYIVD #_ GERMANY nie Donetsk Walking Tour: Explore Dresden .................... 152 LONDON WESTERN per ^# BELGIUM Dresden ^# Eastern Danube, ^# Cologne Walk ............ 40 In the Footsteps English #_ #\ Cologne DAKNrUaBkóEw Dnipropetrovsk SEINE BRUSSELS ^# Lviv UKRAINE Cologne ........................42 of Martin Luther, Channel Frankfurt PRAGUE p^#69 Hungary & p115 Rouen #\ Main #_ #\ Dn Koblenz .........................47 ^# #\ Trier ie Wittenberg ...............154 Bamberg CZECH ster Serbia 97 S PARIS REPUBLIC MOLDOVA Speyer ...........................49 Prague, #_ #\ SLOVAKIA ei Regensburg CHIŞINĂU Royal Palace, n ^# #_ Czech Republic .......... 156 SOUTHERN e Strasbourg ^# #_#_ BRATISLAVA Iaşi ^# Munich^# Budapest ................. 100 RHINE VIENNA #_ Odesa Dresden, Germany ..... 162 ^# EASTERN Thermal Baths p53 Basel ^# Zürich AUSTRIA BUDAPEST #] Southern Rhine, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, #_ DANUBE & Spas, Budapest ....102 Bay of BERN HUNGARY Sevastapol France, Germany & Germany .................... 164 Biscay p97 ROMANIA Geneva ^# SWITZERLAND SLOVENIA Belgrade Fortress ....104 FRANCE ^# ^# CROATIA #_ Constanţa Black Switzerland 53 Budapest, Hungary ....106 Lyon ^# ^# Danube Sea DOURO e Venice #_ n BUCHAREST The European Quarter, Belgrade, Serbia .......... 111 RHÔNE ô Milan BELGRADE p181 h BOSNIA & R Strasbourg .................56 p249 SAN MARINO HERCEGOVNIA SERBIA Bilbao ^# Avingon^# #_ BULGARIA #_ MONACO Strasbourg, France ......58 ^# KOSOVO #_SOFIA ^#Douro Marseille MONTENEGRO İstanbul^# Breisach, Germany ......63 Porto ANDORRA LA VELLA#_ ITALY ANKARA NORTH #_ Basel, Switzerland .......64 Corsica MACEDONIA #_ROME PORTUGAL ^#Barcelona (France) #_ MADRID ^# Bari ALBANIA TURKEY Naples^# LISBON #_ Aegean ^# Sardinia GREECE Sea SPAIN Valencia (Italy) Corfu ^# İzmir ]#Cordoba #_ Seville^# Ionian ATHENS Mediterranean Palermo^# Sea Sea Sicily CYPRUS ^#Gibraltar Sea of Crete Crete MOROCCO ALGERIA TUNISIA Malta #_ VALLETTA ! CONTENTS PLAN YOUR TRIP 3 * Moselle, Volga & Russian Rhône, Germany 167 Waterways, France 249 Bouchon Dining, Trier’s Roman Russia 201 Lyon ......................... 252 Monuments .............. 170 Kremlin, Moscow ....204 Vieux Lyon ............... 254 Wine Tasting in the Red Square & Lyon .............................256 Moselle Valley .......... 172 St Basil’s Cathedral, Vienne ........................ 260 Trier ..............................174 Moscow.................... 208 Avignon ...................... 260 Bernkastel-Kues .........177 State Hermitage Cochem ...................... 179 Museum, St Petersburg ..........210 Main, Walking Tour: St Douro, Petersbrug’s Historic Germany 265 Portugal 181 Heart .........................216 Würzburg Residenz .................. 268 Ribeira ......................184 Moscow ...................... 218 Frankfurt am Main .....270 Vila Nova de Gaia ....186 St Petersburg .............223 Würzburg ....................273 Walking Tour: Porto City Centre ...............188 Bamberg .....................274 Porto ...........................190 Dnieper, Peso da Régua ............198 Ukraine 231 Pinhão .........................199 Kyevo-Pecherska Lavra, Kyiv ............... 234 Odesa’s Beaches ... 236 Kyiv .............................238 Odesa ..........................244 In Focus 277 Survival Guide 301 Europe Today..............278 Directory A–Z ............ 302 History ....................... 280 Transport ................... 306 European Art ............. 288 Language ................... 308 European Index ............................311 Architecture ...............293 Symbols & Map Key ... 319 Food & Drink ...............297 Schwarzwälder kirschtorte (Black Forest cherry cake) ANNA_PUSTYNNIKOVA/SHUTTERSTOCK © ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 310 Behind the Scenes Acknowledgements Harper, Catherine Le Nevez, Kevin Raub, Leonid Ragozin, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Simon Richmond, Brendan Sains- Cover photograph: Cochem Castle, bury, Regis St Louis, Benedict Walker and Nicola Williams. Moselle Valley, Germany; Calle Montes/ This guidebook was produced by the following: Getty Images © Destination Editors Jennifer Carey, Dan Fahey, Gem- Climate map data adapted from Peel ma Graham, Niamh O’Brien, Tom Stainer, Branislava MC, Finlayson BL & McMahon TA Vladisavljevic (2007) ‘Updated World Map of the Senior Product Editor Sandie Kestell Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification’, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Product Editor Shona Gray 11, 163344. Senior Cartographer Mark Griffiths Book Designer Virginia Moreno Illustrations pp122–3, 206–7 and 214–5 by Javier Zarracina. Assisting Editors Judith Bamber, Imogen Bannister, Michelle Bennett, Nigel Chin, Katie Connolly, Jacqueline Danam, Melanie Dankel, Emma Gibbs, Kellie Langdon, Ali- This Book son Morris, Rosie Nicholson, Lorna Parkes, Susan Paterson, Monique Perrin, Sarah Reid, Fionnuala Twomey, Simon This 1st edition of Lonely Planet’s Williamson Cruise Ports European Rivers guide- book was researched and written by Cover Researcher Naomi Parker Andy Symington, Mark Baker, Oliver Thanks to Brooke Giacomin, Sandra Henriques Gajjar, Berry, Kerry Christiani, Gregor Clark, Evan Godt, Kate Mathews, Kirsten Rawlings, Alison Ridgway Marc Di Duca, Steve Fallon, Damian Send Us Your Feedback We love to hear from travellers – your comments keep us on our toes and help make our books better. Our well-travelled team reads every word
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