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Read more: Exploring an icy island best discovered by sea Explore Germany’s third largest river, the Elbe, and cultural highlights along the way with this 10-day cruise aboard Viking Astrild ...
The company was established by Torstein Hagen in St. Petersburg, Russia as Viking River Cruises in 1997. Hagen had become involved in cruising as a McKinsey and Company consultant who helped the Holland America Line survive the 1973 oil crisis, then was CEO of the Royal Viking Line from 1980 to 1984, made money in the Russian private equity markets, then bought a controlling stake in a Dutch ...
Today, the Danube can be reached by large nautical vessels from the Black Sea to Braila in Romania, river vessels to Kelheim in Germany, and small vessels to Ulm.The Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, completed in 1992, allows navigation from Rotterdam in the North Sea to Sulina in the Black Sea, and since 1994 has been designated as a Pan-European corridor.
In 1998, under UNESCO's Programme on Man and the Biosphere, the 6,264.03km 2 of the Danube Delta were established as a biosphere reserve, shared by Romania and Ukraine. Historically, in Romania, part of the Danube Delta was marked as a reserve in 1938. In Ukraine, the Danube branch of the Black Sea State Reserve was established in 1973.
The major themes of the Roman Emperors and Danube Wine Route cultural route are related with the expansion and defense of the Roman Empire in the northern Danube frontier and the Adriatic Sea in its hinterlands. The cultural route is organized as a network of sub-destinations, located in the vicinity of individual archaeological sites ...
Map of the Danube and the major cities it passes through. This is a list of the cities and towns located on Danube river. This list does not include parts of cities, suburbs, neighbourhoods, etc. Any city or town which is located on the bank of Danube river can be included in this list. The cities and towns on Danube river could be sorted by ...
Peninsula between the New Danube arm and the Old Danube lake – until the late 19th Century, it consisted of several large, marshy islands. Leopoldstadt–Brigittenau: Austria, Vienna: 25 180,000 1932.0 Between the Danube and Danube Canal – until the late 19th Century, it consisted of what was then North Vienna and many small, marshy islands ...
The Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (in the foreground) near Nuremberg The Ludwig Canal in the context of the Rhine and Danube The various projects to link the Main and Danube. The Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (German: Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal; also called Main-Danube Canal, RMD Canal or Europa Canal), is a canal in Bavaria, Germany.