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Rhine Falls

Switzerland Schaffhausen Neuhausen

Rhine Falls
Photo: Kabelleger / David Gubler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Europe's most powerful waterfall, where the Rhine thunders 23 m over a rocky ledge 150 m wide, near Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland. Viewing platforms at the Laufen Castle bring you right beside the falls; boats take you to the rock in the middle, which you can climb.


The falls are at their mightiest in June and July. The boat trips run from April to October. The medieval town of Schaffhausen, with its Munot fortress, is a short bus ride away; Stein am Rhein, with its painted houses, is nearby.

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