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Rhine boat trip
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By boat
How about travelling to Alsace by boat? Waterborne tourism offers visitors many opportunities to discover the region from a whole new angle.
You can travel to Alsace via two excellent canals: the Marne-Rhine canal in the north, and the Rhone-Rhine canal to the south.
The Rhone-Rhine canal
This canal offers a marvellous trip of approximately 200 km through the impressive landscape between Dôle and Mulhouse. During your journey, you'll encounter a number of outstanding canal structures including locks, tunnels and aqueducts. You can complete the entire journey within a week, during a trip which takes in the towns of Dôle – Besançon – Baume-les-Dames – Montbéliard – Belfort and Mulhouse. A new canal link between Strasbourg and Colmar is currently in the process of being created, thanks to the reopening of a 24 km section between Artzenheim and Friesenheim.
The Marne-Rhine canal
With its forests and lakes, the landscape around the canal is simply outstanding. On your way you'll see a number of monuments including castles and windmills. When you arrive in Alsace you will be using the Artzwiller lift with its tunnel and inclined plane, a feature unique of its kind in Europe! The boat lift carries boats and canal barges from the upper to the lower canal, travelling up a 41% slope for a distance of 128 metres. The Marne-Rhine canal crosses Alsace and Lorraine for a distance of 152 km including 58 locks, travelling via Nancy, Lagarde and Saverne.
