Bas-Rhin: what to see and do

Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg

The Haut-Koenigsbourg site, probably one of the most visited of French medieval castles, may put off the lover of unrestored architecture.

Mittelbergheim

Mittelbergheim stretches over the vine-covered hills of the Rippellsholz. The village, whose name is mentioned as early as 741, was successively the property of several abbeys.

Strasbourg

European and Alsatian capital, whose Petite France district, crossed by canals and lined with half-timbered houses, embodies Franco-German charm.

Cascade de Nideck

Nideck waterfall (Oberhaslach): south of the Nideck castle, the cliff forms a sheer drop of about 25 m.

Obernai

A medieval town on the Alsace wine route, whose Gothic Chapel tower overlooks a market square surrounded by half-timbered houses in flower.

Cascade de l'Andlau

A waterfall of the Vosges massif at Le Hohwald, also called the Hohwald or Kreuzweg waterfall.

Cascade de la Serva

The Serva waterfall nestles in the Vosges massif, in the commune of Neuviller-la-Roche in the Bas-Rhin, reached from the hamlet of La Haute Goutte at Natzwiller following the yellow triangle waymarks.

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg

Strasbourg's Notre-Dame cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral built in Strasbourg, representative of Gothic architecture.

Château d'Osthoffen

Château de Diedendorf

Château de Guirbaden

Château de Kagenfels

Château de Kintzheim

Château de La Petite-Pierre

Château de Lichtenberg

Château de Pourtalès

Château de Saverne

Palace of the prince-bishops of Strasbourg, the château de Saverne was rebuilt in the eighteenth century and today shows off its immense pink sandstone façade.

Château de Spesbourg

The general look recalls the thirteenth-century fortress, with a keep of about 24 m whose access is possible only by a high door.

Château de Wangenbourg

Château de Wineck

Château de l'Ortenbourg

Château du Bernstein

Château du Birkenfels

Château du Fleckenstein

Château du Grand-Geroldseck

The Grand Geroldseck faces the Haut-Barr, at 481 m altitude. The site is gigantic, and it is very pleasant to lose yourself in it.

Château du Haut-Barr

Château du Hohenbourg

The château de Hohenbourg is built on the summit of the Schlossberg at 553 m altitude and watches over the Palatinate and the Steinbach valley.

Château du Wasenbourg

Château du Wasigenstein

Cigoland

Didi'Land

Hunspach

In the heart of the Outre-Forêt, the former imperial village of Hunspach became in 1504 the property of the Deux-Ponts-Palatinate family, which kept it until the Revolution.

Jardin Botanique de Strasbourg

La Montagne des Singes

Come and escape in our park for a surprising walk among 280 Barbary macaques living in freedom in a 24-ha forest.

La Volerie des Aigles

Le Batelier du Ried

Le Planétarium de Strasbourg

Le Vaisseau

Musée Tomi Ungerer

Musée Zoologique de Strasbourg

Musée alsacien

Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain

The Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCS) was inaugurated by Catherine Trautmann, then Minister of Culture and former mayor of Strasbourg, in December 1998.

Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre Dame

The Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame is a museum in Strasbourg devoted to the visual and decorative arts of the Upper Rhine territories (Alsace, Baden, Rhenish Switzerland, Palatinate) from the early Middle Ages to the annexation of Alsace to France in 1681.

Mémorial de l'Alsace Moselle

Palais Rohan

The Palais Rohan is in the centre of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, next to the cathedral.

Palais du Rhin

Plumy Park

Promenades en barque à fond plat

You will let yourself glide along the water in a still wild setting. It is hard to imagine the serenity and tranquillity that come from such a journey.