Experiences along the Grand Tour in Schaffhausen

This landscape park, designed along Romantic lines, consists of a combination of strictly laid-out avenues and Mediterranean flair. The park is picturesquely situated above the old town and is dominated by an avenue of lime trees that leads to a pulpit with beautiful views over the pristine landscape of the Rhine.

The mercenary foot soldier takes his guests on an exciting and eventful discovery tour through the old town of Schaffhausen.

Take the scheduled boat through eastern Switzerland and cross the border between Switzerland and Germany along the way. On 50 kilometres you glide from the Rhine over the Untersee to Kreuzlingen on Lake Constance.

Rosengarten, the rose garden, is situated next to the entrance of the Munot Fortress and covers an area of about 2,000 sq.m. In 1981 the town nursery together with the Swiss association of rose lovers designed it in the French Renaissance garden-style.

150 metres wide, thundering 23 metres down into the depths before your eyes is Europe’s largest waterfall, a spectacular example of the power of nature. Experience the roaring spectacle of nature at first hand from the ‘Känzeli’ platform. The rock in the middle of the river can be reached by boat and a short ascent on foot. Laufen Castle, enthroned above the water for more than a thousand years, ranks amongst Canton Zurich’s cultural heritage sites. The foaming waters of the Rhine Falls are mesmerising at any time of day, including the evenings when they are illuminated.

The Kesslerloch cave is one of the most important sites of the late Ice Age in Europe and provides traces of settlements from the Upper Palaeolithic Age (Magdalenian civilisation, 14 000 – 12 000 B.C.).

Visit Munot Fortress in Schaffhausen and climb inside the tower to the battlement, the fortress platform. At the top, a view of the Rhine, the old town and the hills of eastern Switzerland awaits you.

The Hagen viewing platform by Merishausen in canton Schaffhausen offers sweeping from the Black Forest as far as the Alps.

The Rhine River Bath: cooling off with a view of the fort Munot. This beautiful wooden structure has been the favourite swimming spot in Schaffhausen for more than 140 years.