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Extract from the Cochem Travel Guides:
The next town of any size beyond Traben-Trarbach is
COCHEM
, which lies 55km downstream and on the main Trier-Koblenz rail line. It's a place which has sold its soul to tourism and should be avoided like the plague in summer. The main attraction is the
Reichsburg
(daily: mid-March to Oct 9am-5pm; first two weeks of Nov 9am-3pm; DM7/?3.50), one of the Rhineland-Palatinate's most famous replica castles. If it weren't a Romantic-era fake (the eleventh- to fourteenth-century original went up in smoke in 1689, assisted by enthusiastic French soldiers), the castle, which dominates the town with its cluster of towers and im...
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