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passion and the battle In the historic centre, the quaint
between Good and Evil. rue des Têtes has the former
The square leads to the river, Did You Know? wine exchange, a Renaissance
a small weir, lavoir (public town house known as the
washing place) and houses Colmar’s cityscape was Maison des Têtes because
overlooking the water. the basis for the design of the grimacing heads on
of the 2005 Japanese the gabled façade.
animated film Howl’s The Musée Bartholdi, on
7 Moving Castle. rue des Marchands, is devoted
to Colmar-born Frédéric-
Colmar Auguste Bartholdi, designer
of the Statue of Liberty.
! G3 ⌂ Haut-Rhin £ @ Nearby, place de la Cathédrale
n Pl Unterlinden; www.
tourisme-colmar.com quarter is full of 16th-century
houses. Église St-Martin, essen-
As a trading post and river tially Gothic, has a noted south
port, the well-preserved portal. To the west, the place EAT
Colmar had its heyday in des Dominicains, busy with
the 16th century, when wine cafés, is dwarfed by the Gothic
merchants shipped their wine Église Dominicaine. Buerehiesel
along the waterways running The adjoining square, place Feast on Michelin-
through the pictur esque canal Unterlinden, has the Musée starred Alsatian
quarter, now known as Petite Unterlinden. Set in a Dominican cuisine in an old house
Venise. “Little Venice” is best monastery, it displays early north of the cathedral.
seen on a boat trip from the Rhenish paintings. The high- ! G3 ⌂ 4 parc de
tanners’ quarter to rue des light is the Issenheim altar- l’Orangerie, Strasbourg
Tanneurs. The adjoining place piece. A masterpiece of emo- ∑ buerehiesel.fr
de l’Alsacienne Douane is tional intensity, it is part of an ¡¡¡
dominated by the Koifhüs, a early 16th-century Alsatian
galleried customs house with panel painting by Matthias Wistub Brenner
a Burgundian tiled roof, over- Grünewald. A three-storey Traditional Alsatian
looking half-timbered houses wing houses modern and dishes served in a
sporting sculpted pillars. contemporary art. convivial location.
! G3 ⌂ 1 rue de
Turenne, Colmar
∑ wistub-brenner.fr
¡¡¡
Le Magasin
aux Vivres
Set in the citadel, this
Michelin-starred
restaurant is famed for
its scrumptious dishes
and superb wine list.
! F2 ⌂ A5 av Ney, Metz
∑ citadelle-metz.com
¡¡¡
Brasserie Excelsior
Oysters are a specialty
at this glorious belle
époque restaurant.
! F3 ⌂ 50 rue Henri
Poincaré, Nancy
∑ brasserie-excelsior-
nancy.fr
¡¡¡
Along the quai de la
Poissonnerie in the Petite
Venise area of Colmar
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