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Anyone who comes here – whether by mountain bike or on foot – will quickly fall in love with this region of culture, nature and wine on the River Rhine: it’s a very easy place to spend time. And ...

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This is from the romantic poem that Heinrich Heine once wrote about the beautiful maiden Lorelei, a kind of water sprite who is supposed to have sat atop the Lorelei rock. Legend has it that she so ...