Day 1
Zurich
Switzerland's largest city, on the lake and the Limmat, with an old town of guild houses and church spires.
Embark
Day 2
Breisach
A small town on the Rhine at the edge of the Black Forest, its cathedral on a rock above the river.
Ashore
Day 3
Strasbourg
Half-timbered houses along the canals of Petite France and a soaring red sandstone cathedral at the heart of Alsace.
Ashore
Day 4
Mannheim
A Rhine city laid out in a grid of numbered blocks around its baroque palace, and the usual gateway to Heidelberg.
Ashore
Day 5
Rüdesheim
A wine town on the Rhine, its narrow Drosselgasse lined with taverns and the vineyards rising steeply behind.
Ashore
Day 6
Cochem
A Moselle wine town below the turrets of the Reichsburg castle, with half-timbered houses along the river.
Ashore
Day 7
Bernkastel
A Moselle wine town of half-timbered houses around its market square, below the ruined Landshut castle.
Ashore
Day 9
Koblenz
Where the Moselle meets the Rhine at the Deutsches Eck, with the Ehrenbreitstein fortress on the far bank.
Ashore
Day 10
Düsseldorf
An elegant Rhine city of art and fashion, with an old town of breweries along the riverside promenade.
Ashore
Day 11
Arnhem
A green Dutch city on the Rhine, known for the John Frost Bridge and the 1944 battle that bears its name.
Ashore
Day 12
Antwerp
Belgium's great port city, home of Rubens and the diamond trade, with a fine cathedral and guild houses.
Ashore
Day 13
Bruinisse
A small harbour village in Zeeland, among the dykes and inland waters of the Dutch delta.
Ashore
Day 14
Dordrecht
The oldest city in Holland, at a meeting of rivers, with merchant houses and harbours lined by old warehouses.
Ashore
Day 15–16
Amsterdam
Seventeenth-century canal houses leaning over the water, the Rijksmuseum a short walk away, and more bicycles than residents.
Ashore
Day 17
Cologne
The twin spires of the cathedral stand over the Rhine, as they have since the Middle Ages, beside a lively old town.
Ashore
Day 18
Rhine Gorge
The Middle Rhine between Rudesheim and Koblenz, with castles on every height and the Lorelei rock.
Ashore
Day 19
Miltenberg
A Main town known for its half-timbered market square, below the Mildenburg castle.
Ashore
Day 20
Würzburg
A baroque city on the Main, home to the Residenz palace and the Marienberg fortress above the vineyards.
Ashore
Day 21
Bamberg
A UNESCO-listed old town built across seven hills, with its town hall standing in the middle of the river.
Ashore
Day 22
Nuremberg
A walled medieval city of half-timbered houses below its imperial castle, and home to one of Germany's best-known Christmas markets.
Ashore
Day 23
Regensburg
A medieval city that never lost its centre. The Stone Bridge is nine hundred years old and still the way you walk into town.
Ashore
Day 24
Passau
Where the Inn and the Ilz meet the Danube, under an Italianate baroque cathedral and the largest church organ in Europe.
Ashore
Day 25
Dürnstein
A small Wachau town with a blue and white baroque abbey tower and the ruined castle where Richard the Lionheart was held.
Ashore
Day 26–27
Vienna
The Ringstrasse, the Hofburg and the old coffee houses, all within an easy walk of one another. A city that rewards an unhurried afternoon.
Ashore
Day 28–29
Budapest
Buda on its hill, Pest on the flat, and the Chain Bridge lit between them. The finest arrival on any European river.
Disembark
