Come and discover
Upper Rhine castles
AN EUROPEAN PROJECT
The ‘Châteaux rhénans - Burgen am Oberrhein’ project is receiving European ERDF
co-funding of €2.9m as part of the Interreg Upper Rhine programme.
COME AND DISCOVER THE RHINE VALLEY,
A land of castles!
At the crossroads of the German, Swiss and French borders, you'll be amazed by one of the highest densities of fortified castles, with more than 300 dominating the massifs of the Rhine Valley. Witnesses to the Middle Ages, marked by the Germanic influence, these castles, transformed or now ruins, have resonated since the 19th century with legends and myths inherited from Romanticism. Today, the history of these Rhine castles continues...
The territory of
Upper Rhine
