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From Mainz to Gandia: My personal guide to connecting the Rhine with the Mediterranean

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My friends often ask me how I organize my trips when I have to cross half of Europe to get back home or to meet friends who are coming from Germany. Mainz is my base in the Rhineland, but Gandía is that refuge where the sun and the sea always await us with open arms. […]

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Mainz: The Historic Crossroads of Rome, Gutenberg, and the Wine Festival

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Mainz, The Journey That Begins on the Rhine If you are looking for a destination in Germany that combines a thousand-year-old cultural heritage with contagious joie de vivre, Mainz is the place. It is not just the capital of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate; it is the meeting point where Roman roots (Moguntiacum), the legacy

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