Visiting the Rhine River Valley never gets old. It's storybook Germany, a fairy-tale world of legends, rugged cliffs, half-timbered towns and robber-baron castles. One of Europe's great thrills is ...

Germany is a land of medieval castles, but few evoke the aura of fairy-tale fantasy that Disney has dished up to Americans for decades. That’s because the Middle Ages, when ramparts and stone towers ...

As we’ve had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here are a few of my favorite European castle memories—a reminder of the ...

Visiting the Rhine River Valley never gets old. It’s storybook Germany, a fairy-tale world of legends, rugged cliffs, half-timbered towns and robber-baron castles. One of Europe’s great thrills is ...

Vineyards on the slopes of the Moselle and Rhine, monumental structures from the Roman Empire in Germany's oldest city Trier: the state of Rhineland-Palatinate is ideal for culture buffs and epicures.

From the outside, Schloss Rheydt is just another moated Rhineland castle. Within, it is an art lover’s eyeful. There the British have collected German ecclesiastical art treasures, rescued by the ...