Several times daily, Rhine riverboats set course for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Middle Rhine Valley, past the Loreley Rock, steeped in legend, and romantic wine-growing villages.

So close to the metropolis Frankfurt, and yet embedded in a unique cultural Landscape, Mainz is an ideal starting point for all those who would like to set off on exciting tours of discovery: in the footsteps of the ancient Romans through 2000- year-old “Moguntiacum”. On a wine pleasure trip through the vineyards of Rhine-Hesse and the Rhinegau. Or on a trip in time back to the Middle Ages to the castles and castle ruins along the Rhine. They are strung like pearls on a string – and that not 20 minutes’ drive from Mainz.