Rhine Gorge
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The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany. It was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in June 2002 because of its beauty as a cultural landscape, its importance as a route of transport across Europe, and the unique adaptations of the buildings and terraces to the steep slopes of the gorge.
St. Goarshausen, castle Katz with Loreley rock in the Rhineland-Palatinate
View of Burg Katz, with the Lorelei in the background
Aerial image of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley in the area of Sankt Goarshausen with the Lorelei at the bottom of the image
Koblenz, the northern gateway to the World Heritage Site, with the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress
Middle Rhine
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Between Bingen and Bonn, Germany, the river Rhine flows as the Middle Rhine through the Rhine Gorge, a formation created by erosion, which happened at about the same rate as an uplift in the region, leaving the river at about its original level, and the surrounding lands raised. This gorge is quite deep, about 130 metres (430 ft) from the top of the rocks down to the average water-line.
Aerial image of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley in the area of Sankt Goarshausen with the Lorelei at the bottom of the image
St. Goarshausen, Burg Katz, with Lorelei rock in Rhineland-Palatinate
View from the Loreley
The Andernach Geyser, the highest cold-water geyser in the world