Colmar guide de voyage

Visitez Colmar : Alsace gites : Colmar Hotels : location des voitures : Alsace river cruise : explore Alsace

Colmar is a sizeable town in the Haut-Rhin department to the south of the Alsace region.

The town has rather too much development around the edges, but penetrate through and you will love the old town! Street after narrow street of half-timbered, half-painted houses, will show you the real Alsace as it was hundreds of years ago.

The part of the town describes as 'Petite Venise' is especially attractive and photogenic, with some simply lovely houses lining the river (perhaps too over-restored to feel really authentic, but still unmissable on a visit to Colmar).

The town also has two great works of art hidden away, for which it is renowned:

The first is in the Unterlinden Museum - the Issenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald, a magnificent piece of Renaissance art;

The second is in the dominican church - the 'vierge au buisson de roses' by Martin Schongauer. although less important than the Grunewald, it is also a highly regarded altarpiece

Note for USA readers: it was in Colmar that Auguste Bartholdi, creator of the Statue of Liberty, was born.

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