The Danube is a European river and although the Volga is longer and the Rhine is of greater economic importance, no other river flows through ten countries almost three thousand kilometres from its source within the Black Forest, to its delta estuary in the Black Sea.... Donau-Eschingen is the birthplace of the Danube whose source is situated in the gardens of Fürstenberg Castle ..After around two hundred kilometres in the valley of the Young Danube, the famous river reaches Ulm, ..Donauwörth developed from a fishing settlement on the Wörnitz island of Ried from where the river flows into the Danube. .. Linz, the capital city of Upper Austria, owes its good fortune to its strategic location at the junction of the Traun. ..

The Danube is a multicultural European lifeline, a magnificent waterway that flows through both history and time.