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Rüdesheim
A lively wine town with a famous lane of taverns, and a cable car over the vineyards to a giant monument.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free; paid for the cable car
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Drosselgasse, 65385 Rüdesheim am RheinDirections
- Getting There
- Trains on the right bank, or a ferry from Bingen.
Why Go
The Drosselgasse, a narrow lane of wine taverns, is packed in summer. A cable car glides over the vines to the Niederwald Monument of 1883, a huge Germania figure looking down on the river.
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