PalenQ

something in me and most i think just loves European river valleys and the following are my favorites and i'd be interested in knowing ones you all like too.

GERMANY - Mosel (my favorite of all European river valleys) - The Elbe in Saxon Switzerland - The Neckar from Heidelberg towards Rothenburg - The Rhine Gorge Bingen/Rudesheim to Koblenz.

FRANCE - The Loire Valley around Amboise - the only wild river about in all of France; The Gorge of Verdun; The Gorge of the Tarn, the Ardeche River Gorge

SWITZERLAND - The Rhone valley Lake Geneva to Visp; the Aare River in and around Bern.

AUSTRIA - The Wachau Valley between Melk and Krems

PORTUGAL - The Duoro River Valley

which river stretches are your favorites?

quokka

GERMANY - in addition to the already mentioned: Lahn around Marburg and further downstream from Wetzlar to Lahnstein - Weser in Weserbergland - Altmühl valley - Donau gorge between Weltenburg and Kelheim - Tauber from Rothenburg to Wertheim - Unstrut and Saale around Naumburg and Freyburg

travel2live2

I agree with the above. I really like the river flowing around twisty bends in Cesky Krumlov, too.

mr_go

The Dordogne Valley is the first one that leaps to mind for me. Especially the area around Beynac and Castlenaud.

Schaffhausen Falls on the Swiss/German border are remarkable too.

USNR

Budapest downstream on the Danube to the Black Sea.

ParisAmsterdam

My riparian experience in
Europe is not as wide as yours
but we drove the Gorges du Tarn from Aguessac to Ste Enimie this summer and loved it. ;^)

My other favourite stretch... although it's hardly a river at that point... is the source of the Loire at a spring at Mont Gerbier de Jonc... pretty neat to see the very spring from which the river starts...

Rob

StCirq

Dordogne - France

Meuse - Belgium

knoxvillecouple

As long as you're including the sources of rivers (see ParisAmsterdam's post), I'd add the source of the Sorgue River in France - at Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.

Sam