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Extract from the Bacharach Travel Guides:
BACHARACH
, 10km downstream from Trechtingshausen, was called Baccaracum by the Romans after an altar stone to Bacchus which once stood in the Rhine. This was blown up in 1850 to ease navigation of the river, but parts of the old town wall are still intact and there are plenty of half-timbered houses, particularly around Marktplatz and in Blcherstrasse. The thirteenth-century
Peterskirche
on Marktplatz has both late Romanesque and early Gothic features, and is one of the few medieval churches in Germany with an interior of four tiers. Above rises
Burg Stahleck
, a chunky-looking castle, dating back at leas...
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