Things to do in Colmar
Around Colmar, Notrebellefrance lists 22 tourist sites within 18 km, including 8 castles, 6 villages, 3 museums and 3 zoos and wildlife parks. Not to be missed: Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg, Colmar and Musée animé du Jouet et des Petits trains.
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.
Colmar
Located in the centre of Alsace, between the two other major industrial centres of Strasbourg and Mulhouse, Colmar is an essential stop.
Musée animé du Jouet et des Petits trains
Musée Unterlinden
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.
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.
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...
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.
Château de Kaysersberg
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.
Parc des Cigognes et des Loutres
Château du Pflixbourg
Bergheim
Alsatian wine village enclosed by ramparts and towers, ranked among the Most Beautiful Villages of France.
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 de Saint-Ulrich
Château du Haut-Ribeaupierre
Neuf-Brisach
Octagonal fortified town designed by Vauban, inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
Cigoland
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.
Château de Kintzheim
La Volerie des Aigles
