Die Rheinlandschaft hat ein unersetzliches Panorama, von jedem besungen, der je einen Vers zu schmieden vermochte"
(Heinrich Böll, 1960

The Rhine is a river 1,232.7 km in length in Western and Central Europe, and one of the busiest inland waterways in the world.
The source region of the Rhine lies predominantly in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, while its distributaries reach the North Sea in the Netherlands.