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Towns & cities · Bas-Rhin
Strasbourg
European and Alsatian capital, whose Petite France district, crossed by canals and lined with half-timbered houses, embodies Franco-German charm.
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Half-timbered houses in bloom, wine villages, castles on the ridges and great cities of art: Alsace offers a wide variety of visits in a small area. The wine route links most of its most beautiful villages.
This selection brings together Strasbourg and Colmar, the villages of Riquewihr, Eguisheim and Kaysersberg, the Haut-Kœnigsbourg castle, leading museums and a few nature sites in the Alsatian Vosges. Its Christmas markets also make it a winter destination.
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Villages · Haut-Rhin
Colmar
Located in the centre of Alsace, between the two other major industrial centres of Strasbourg and Mulhouse, Colmar is an essential stop.
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Villages · Haut-Rhin
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.
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Villages · Haut-Rhin
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...
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Villages · Haut-Rhin
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.
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Villages · Haut-Rhin
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.
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Villages · Bas-Rhin
Obernai
A medieval town on the Alsace wine route, whose Gothic Chapel tower overlooks a market square surrounded by half-timbered houses in flower.
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Villages · Bas-Rhin
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.
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Castles · Bas-Rhin
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.
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Zoos & wildlife parks · Bas-Rhin
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.
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Museums · Haut-Rhin
Ecomusée d'Alsace
A living open-air museum: the largest ecomuseum in France has become a worldwide reference for preserving, presenting and bringing heritage to life.
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Museums · Haut-Rhin
Musée Unterlinden
Housed in a former Dominican convent founded in 1252, the Unterlinden museum presents a prestigious collection of sculptures and paintings from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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Museums · Haut-Rhin
Cité de l'automobile
The Cité de l'automobile – National Museum – Schlumpf Collection in Mulhouse is the largest car museum in the world, with 500 vehicles including 464 cars from 98 makes, among them Fritz Schlumpf's famous collection, tracing the history of the European automobile from 1878 to the present day.
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Natural wonders · Haut-Rhin
Grand Ballon
At 1,424 metres, the Grand Ballon is the highest point of the Vosges massif and of the Haut-Rhin département. Its open summit, topped by a military radome, overlooks the Alsace plain and offers one of the widest panoramas in eastern France.
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Lakes · Haut-Rhin
Le Lac de Fischboedlé
This small lake is one of the most beautiful lakes of the Vosges.
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