Haut-Rhin: what to see and do
47 sites listed in the département. In the heart of southern Alsace, the Haut-Rhin strings flower-decked half-timbered villages along its wine route, including the famous Colmar and its Little Venice. The Vosges massif, its ballons and its waterfalls complete this département of living traditions.
Colmar
Located in the centre of Alsace, between the two other major industrial centres of Strasbourg and Mulhouse, Colmar is an essential stop.
Le Lac de Fischboedlé
This small lake is one of the most beautiful lakes of the Vosges.
Bergheim
Alsatian wine village enclosed by ramparts and towers, ranked among the Most Beautiful Villages of France.
Cascade Saint-Nicolas
A waterfall of the Vosges massif, on the boundary of Kruth and Oderen, in the Haut-Rhin.
Cascade de l'Erzenbach
A waterfall of the Vosges massif, in the commune of Steinbach, in the Haut-Rhin.
Cascade de la Lauch
A waterfall of the Vosges massif, on the boundary of Lautenbachzell and Linthal, upstream of Lac de la Lauch.
Cascade du Bockloch
On the right bank of Lac de Kruth-Wildenstein, the Bockloch torrent rushes down the slope from the Col du Bockloch.
Cascade du Bruscher
A waterfall of the Vosges massif, in the commune of Ranspach, in the Haut-Rhin.
Cascade du Heidenbad
At the Heidenbad waterfall, the Thur throws itself from the top of one of these rocks. There, it makes a fall of twenty-four metres into the void.
Cascade du Kletterbach
A waterfall of the Vosges massif, in the commune of Lautenbachzell, at the foot of the Grand Ballon.
Château de Kaysersberg
Château de Saint-Ulrich
Château du Girsberg
The château de Girsberg, in the territory of the commune of Ribeauvillé, is one of the three fortresses rising on the hill that overlooks the town.
Château du Haut-Ribeaupierre
Château du Hohlandsbourg
Built in 1279 on a site occupied since the Bronze Age, the château du Hohlandsbourg was the symbol of Habsburg policy in Alsace until the Thirty Years' War, which saw its ruin.
Château du Hugstein
Château du Landskron
Château du Pflixbourg
Cité de l'automobile
Cité du Train
Ecomusée d'Alsace
Eguisheim
Ranked among the Most Beautiful Villages of France since 2003, national flower prize since 1989, gold medal of the European Entente Florale competition in 2006...
Hunawihr
The village lies half-way up the slopes at the confluence of two watercourses. Surrounded by its little fortified cemetery, the fifteenth-century church emerges among vines that stretch to infinity.
Kaysersberg
Kaysersberg, with its many half-timbered houses, fine historic centre and ruined imperial castle (Kaysersberg means the Emperor's mountain) overlooking the town, has tremendous charm.
Lac noir et Lac Blanc
After the retreat and melting of glaciers, moraines form natural dams in the valleys.
Lac vert
About 5 km from the Col de la Schlucht, a forest path leads to Lac Vert, also called Lac de Soultzeren, nestled at 1,044 m altitude on the Alsace side of the Vosges.
Le Lac Blanc
Musée Electropolis
The EDF Electropolis Museum "The adventure of electricity" is a museum devoted to electric energy in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin, France).
Musée Unterlinden
Musée animé du Jouet et des Petits trains
Musée d'Art Africain
Musée de l'Impression sur Etoffes
The Musée de l'Impression sur Étoffes is a French museum in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin).
Musée historique de Mulhouse
The Historical Museum is housed in the former Town Hall. Created in 1864, it has since developed in three directions: local archaeology, the history of Mulhouse and southern Alsace, and the folk art of the Sundgau.
Musée-Mémorial du Linge
Neuf-Brisach
Octagonal fortified town designed by Vauban, inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
Parc Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse
The garden of discoveries. In a remarkable natural site of 25 ha, 1,300 animals, the rarest of which are preserved within an international network of collaborations, and magnificent flower displays from spring to autumn.
Parc de Wesserling
At the Wesserling Park, you can discover a French-style garden, an English-style park, Italian-style terraces and a vegetable garden!
Parc des Cigognes et des Loutres
Parc du Petit Prince
Petite Camargue alsacienne
This marsh, relic and witness of the Rhine jungle, was classified by a Conseil d'État decree, to become the first protected nature reserve of Alsace.
Riquewihr
A charming little Alsatian town producing one of the best wines of Alsace, the village, whose wealth stirred the covetousness of the powerful, gave itself ramparts and a fortress that did not always prevent pillaging.
Rocher de Belmont
Tellure Mines d'argent
Vivarium du Moulin
Cascade du Bubalafels
Grand Ballon
Mulhouse
A former textile industrial town become the French capital of technical museums, whose painted town hall overlooks the Place de la Réunion.