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Hôtel Le Maréchal
In the heart of the
romantic Petite Venise
area, this riverside inn
from 1565 has cheer-
fully colourful rooms.
! G3 ⌂ 4/5 Place des Six
Montagnes Noires,
Colmar ∑ hotel-le-
marechal.com
¡¡¡
Rare books on the shelves of the Beatus Rhenanus
Room at the Bibliothèque Humaniste, Sélestat Chambard
This chic hotel has
luxurious rooms and a
Side streets have Renaissance Opposite is Église St-Georges, Michelin-starred
and medieval timber-framed glittering with green and red restaurant to match.
houses. A stroll past the cafés “Burgundian tiles”. It’s also home to a
on rue du Marché ends in a Medieval Dambach-la-Ville, traditional winstub
pleasant park by the ramparts. another pretty town about (wine lounge).
Odile, Alsace’s 7th-century 9 km (6 miles) north of Sélestat, !G3 ⌂ 9-13 rue du
patron saint, was born in is linked to Andlau and red- Général de Gaulle,
Obernai, and is venerated tiled Itterswiller by a delightful Kayserberg
on Mont Sainte-Odile, to the rural road through vineyards. ∑ lechambard.fr
west of the town.
Bibliothèque Humaniste ¡¡¡
" ⌂ 1 pl Dr Maurice Kubler
L’Oriel
11 # Hours vary, check website This half-timbered
¢ 1 & 31 Jan, 1 May, 25 & 26
Sélestat Dec ∑ biblio theque- hotel, in picturesque
humaniste.fr Riquewihr, has vibrant
! G3 ⌂ Bas-Rhin £ @ rooms overlooking a
n 10 blvd Leclerc; www. lovely courtyard.
selestat-haut-koenigs-
bourg.com 12 ! G3 ⌂ 3 rue Ecuries
Seigneuriales,
During the Renaissance, Neuf-Brisach Riquewihr
Sélestat was the intellectual ! G3 ⌂ Haut-Rhin @ ∑ hotel-oriel.fr
centre of Alsace, with a tradi- n Palais du Gouverneur, 6 ¡¡¡
tion of humanism fostered by pl d’Armes; www.selestat-
Beatus Rhenanus, a friend of haut-koenigsbourg.com
Erasmus. The Bibliothèque
Humaniste has a collection of Situated near the German
editions of some of the earliest border, this octagonal citadel The historic Porte de Belfort
printed books, including the is military engineer Vauban’s houses the Musée Vauban,
first book to name America, in masterpiece. Built between which includes a model of
1507. Nearby are the Cour des 1698 and 1707, the citadel the town, showing the outlying
Prélats, a turreted ivy-covered forms a star-shaped pattern, defences, now concealed by
mansion, and the Tour de with symmet rical towers woodland. They represent
l’Horloge, a clocktower. Église enclosing 48 equal squares. Vauban’s barrier to the
Ste-Foy is 12th century, with Straight streets radi ate from fortress and it is to his
an octagonal bell tower. the centre, where you’ll find credit that the citadel was
place d’Armes and the Église never taken.
St-Louis, which was added in
1731–6. This was the usual Musée Vauban
The picturesque village homage to Louis XV, implying " ⌂ 7 pl de Belfort # Hours
of Riquewihr, set among that the church was dedicated vary, check website
wine-making country to the king, not the saint. ∑ vaubanecomusee.org
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