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Rhine Riverbanks and Mittlere Brücke

Rhine Riverbanks and Mittlere Brücke

Basel · Switzerland

5 stops4.2 km47 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Follow the Rhine through a sequence of bridges, riverbank perspectives, and elevated viewpoints in Basel. Begin on Mittlere Brücke, then pause at Aussichtspunkt Altstadt and Basler Pfalz to look across the water and understand how the river frames the city. The walk continues through Wettsteinbrücke to Schwarzwaldbrücke, making the changing views from each crossing part of the experience.

The walk

  1. Mittlere Brücke

    Mittlere Brücke

    Basel’s oldest Rhine crossing, built in the thirteenth century and rebuilt in nineteen oh three.

  2. Aussichtspunkt Altstadt

    Aussichtspunkt Altstadt

    A tourist attraction in Basel, Switzerland.

  3. Wettsteinbrücke

    Wettsteinbrücke

    A bridge with a steeply debated slope, a vanished quartet of basilisks, and a rebuilt twentieth-century life.

  4. Basler Pfalz

    Basler Pfalz

    Basler Pfalz is an attraction in Basel, Switzerland.

  5. Schwarzwaldbrücke

    Schwarzwaldbrücke

    A ten-lane Rhine crossing that turned Basel’s fiercest motorway argument into concrete.

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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