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What surprised me most when I travelled through the Rhine Valley was the amount of transport on the river and in the valley. The Rhine valley is - and has been for hundreds of years - a very important route for transportation. When I was there there where trains passing by on both sides of the river every couple of minutes and so many big boats sailed by on the river in both directions with commodity. I knew that it was a very important transportation route in the past but what I did not know was that it still is....

The Rhine Valley - 23.09.2010.

About Rhine:

The Rhine flows from Graubnden in the eastern Swiss Alps to the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at about 1,233 km (766 mi),with an average discharge of more than 2,000 m3/s (71,000 cu ft/s).

The name of the Rhine derives from Gaulish Renos, and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *reie- , which is also the root of words like river and run. The Reno River in Italy shares the same etymology. The spelling with -h- seems to be borrowed from the Greek form of the name, Rhenos, seen also in rheos, stream, and rhein, to flow.

The Rhine and the Danube formed most of the northern inland frontier of the Roman Empire and, since those days, the Rhine has been a vital and navigable waterway carrying trade and goods deep inland. It has also served as a defensive feature and has been the basis for regional and international borders. The many castles and prehistoric fortifications along the Rhine testify to its importance as a waterway. River traffic could be stopped at these locations, usually for the purpose of collecting tolls,! by the state that controlled that portion of the river.

Read more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine