Romantic Heidelberg

Written By Bosley Wilder Posted on Nature

One of the loveliest cities of Europe, the great German university city of Heidelberg stretches along both sides of the wide Neckar River, a tributary of the Rhine. Pleasure boats thread a leisurely path along the river, enticing strollers and bikers to the shoreline the better to wave to passengers on the boat decks. The boats pass under the twin-towered Carl Theodor Bridge, one of the most beautiful bridges in the world. Completed in the 18th century, of stone, it has survived where eight of its predecessors constructed of wood had been destroyed by fire, ice or floods since 1310. Close by the Bridge are the Hirschgasse, the traditional dueling site, and the wonderful walkway along the river known as Philosophers' Way.

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