We were now on the Rhine River portion of our cruise. Rüdesheim am Rhein is a truly spectacular town in the Rhine Valley, famous for its Riesling wines. In the morning, we visited Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Cabinet, a fascinating museum of priceless antique automated musical instruments, not to mention bird boxes. Afterward, I took the gondola over the vineyards to the Niederwald Monument and the Germania Statue, built between 1871 and 1883 to commemorate the Unification of Germany at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. This is one of the most cherished monuments in Germany. Later in the day, we took a quick visit through the town of Rüdesheim, with a stop at a biergarten prior to cruising to our next destination, Cologne, where we passed through the Rhine Gorge and got a quick view of the Lorelei statue.
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