Day 1–2
Bucharest
Romania's capital, with broad boulevards, Belle Epoque buildings and the vast Palace of the Parliament.
Embark
Day 3
Ruse
Bulgaria's Danube port, with neo-baroque buildings around its central square that earned it the name Little Vienna.
Ashore
Day 4
Vidin
A Bulgarian town on the Danube with Baba Vida, one of the best-preserved medieval fortresses in the region.
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Day 5
Golubac
Where the Danube enters the Iron Gates, guarded by the towers of Golubac fortress on the Serbian bank.
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Day 6
Belgrade
Serbia's capital at the meeting of the Sava and the Danube, watched over by the Kalemegdan fortress.
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Day 7
Osijek
A Croatian city on the Drava, with an eighteenth-century fortress quarter called Tvrda.
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Day 8
Kalocsa
A Hungarian town known for its paprika and its colourful folk embroidery.
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Day 9–10
Budapest
Buda on its hill, Pest on the flat, and the Chain Bridge lit between them. The finest arrival on any European river.
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Day 11–12
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.
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Day 13
Melk
A golden baroque Benedictine abbey on a rock above the Danube, at the western gate of the Wachau.
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Day 14
Passau
Where the Inn and the Ilz meet the Danube, under an Italianate baroque cathedral and the largest church organ in Europe.
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Day 15
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.
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Day 16
Main-Danube Canal
The waterway that links the Main and the Danube across the Franconian hills, climbing through a series of locks.
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Day 16
Nuremberg
A walled medieval city of half-timbered houses below its imperial castle, and home to one of Germany's best-known Christmas markets.
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Day 17
Bamberg
A UNESCO-listed old town built across seven hills, with its town hall standing in the middle of the river.
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Day 18
Wurzburg
A baroque city on the Main, home to the Residenz palace and the Marienberg fortress above the vineyards.
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Day 19
Wertheim
A small town at the meeting of the Main and the Tauber, below the ruins of its red sandstone castle.
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Day 19
Spessart
The wooded hills along the Main, where the river winds past small towns and castles.
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Day 20
Koblenz
Where the Moselle meets the Rhine at the Deutsches Eck, with the Ehrenbreitstein fortress on the far bank.
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Day 21
Cologne
The twin spires of the cathedral stand over the Rhine, as they have since the Middle Ages, beside a lively old town.
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Day 22
Kinderdijk
Nineteen eighteenth-century windmills standing along the waterways of a UNESCO-listed polder.
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Day 23
Amsterdam
Seventeenth-century canal houses leaning over the water, the Rijksmuseum a short walk away, and more bicycles than residents.
Disembark
