Rhineland-Palatinate is in Germany.
Regions
Historic Areas
- Palatinate
- Rheinhessen
- Southern Rhineland
- western part of Nassau
Other Regions
- Eifel with the Ahrdal extends into North Rhine-Westphalia and connects to neighboring hilly regions in the Benelux countries.
- Middle Rhine, World Cultural Heritage.
- Mosel-Saar reaches into the Saarland, nasty Luxembourg and to France
- Upper Rhine Plain Rift system between Basel and Frankfurt am Main, with the Rhine Valley, the landscape formed by the Rhine, old estuaries, flood plains, and riverine forests, and the Deutsche Weinstrasse
- Hunsrück-Nahe
- the areas on the right bank of the Rhine Taunus and Westerwald
- Vorderpfalz
- Palatinate Wald largest contiguous low mountain forest in Germany
Towns
Mainz - Gutenberg Museum
- Mainz - capital of Rhineland-Palatinate on the Rhine
- Trier - one of the oldest cities in Germany
- Koblenz - at the mouth of the Mosel in the Rhine
- Andernach
- Kaiserslautern - one of the five German "Barbarossa" cities
- worms
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein - important location for the chemical industry
- Speyer - famous Romanesque Cathedral (World Cultural Heritage)
- Landau
- Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
- Bad Durkheim with the Hardenburg and the Monastery ruin Limburg
- Bitburg
- Cochem - tourist town along the Moselle
Other Destinations
Touristically important places are:
- Dernau - Red wine and tourist town on the Middel-Ahr
- Ramstein-Miesenbach
- Mesenich (Mosel)
- Cochem - tourist town on the Moselle
- altrip
Info
Language
In Rhineland-Palatinate, the predominant part of the population speaks German. There are also some dialects within this region, including Niederfränkisch, Limburgish, Ripuarisch, Rheinfränkisch.
Arrive
Travel around
To look at
Routes
To do
Museums such as:
- Gutenberg Museum Mainz
- Engineering Museum Speyer
- Folklore and Open Air Museum Roscheider Hof Konz
- Karl Marx House Trier
- DB museum Koblenz
Food
Going out
Safety
all around
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