Danube conservation and touristic development of the Danube region. In medieval Regensburg, with its maintained old town, stone bridge and cathedral, the Route of Emperors and Kings begins. It continues to Engelhartszell, with the only Trappist monastery in Austria. Further highlight-stops along the Danube include the "Schlögener Schlinge", the city of Linz, which was European Capital of Culture in 2009 with its contemporary art richness, the Melk Abbey, the university city of Krems and the cosmopolitan city of Vienna. Before the Route of Emperors and Kings ends, you pass Bratislava and Budapest, the latter which was seen as the twin town
Danube–Oder Canal "Kanal Kędzierzynski" and serves to connect the nitrogen factory "Azoty Kędzierzyn AG" to the Oder. The waterway today is again part of plans for a European Danube–Oder–Elbe Canal project that would also connect the Elbe river. Danube–Oder Canal The Danube–Oder Canal (; ) is a planned and partially constructed artificial waterway in the Lobau floodplain of the Danube at Vienna, that was supposed to stretch along the Morava River to the Oder at the city of Kędzierzyn-Koźle in Poland. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV had envisioned a waterway capable of taking ships from the Oder to the Danube in