Located near Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland, Rhine Falls is Europe’s largest waterfall by water volume. The Rhine River plunges 23 meters over a width of 150 meters, creating an impressive ...

Added to Switzerland’s State Inventory for Countryside and Natural Monuments of National Importance in 1983, the Rhine Falls is Europe’s largest waterfall in terms of width (150 m. / 492 ft.) and flow ...

In northern Switzerland, the Rhine River reaches a stretch of resistant rock that forces the water into a sudden drop. Rather than narrowing into a single chute, the river spreads across a broad ledge ...

In Europe, there are no waterfalls as large as those in America and Africa, but that doesn’t mean the old continent lacks important and beautiful waterfalls. The largest one is formed by the Rhine ...

“See you tomorrow,” says Werner Mändli to the passengers as they leave his boat to climb onto the rocks at the Rhine Falls. But the 1.5 million tourists per year who visit Europe’s largest waterfall ...