Collar, Alsace France, the City with the Statue of Liberty
OR Collar (Colmar/Kolmar) is a city of BA. France, near the German border.
Belongs to the cultural area of Alsace, of the region of Grand Est and is the capital of the Prefecture of Upper Rhine (Skin Rhin), the river Rhine is located 15 km Α. city's.
Collar – “Venice” – Lauch river
The Colmar Historical Center, with buildings mainly Gothic, Renaissance, attracts many tourists as the city is placed between Strasbourg of France (NW., about 1 h) and Basel of Switzerland (NE., about 1 h), on the A35 highway.
Colmar -“Venice” – Covered Purchase Colmar (Colmar covered walking)
THE Lauch river (Lauch), tributary of the Rhine, crosses the city and creates the wonderful “Venice” of colmar.
The scene is complemented by the picturesque districts by the river, Neighborhood of turenne, with the houses of the tanneries, or Quai de la Poissonnerie, With the fishermen's houses, or Street of Schools, the picturesque bridges and the squares with the pedestrian streets.
Quai de la Poissonnerie, fishermen
Pont de la Petite Venise, love locks that place pairs (traditional custom)
The buildings, with faces of pink and yellow sandstone, from the Vosges mountains and the classic wooden windows, they are examples of German and French influences.
Tourist sight
Tourist sight
“Tannuers brasserie”, στην Rue dew Turenne
Tourist sight
Colmar is famous for Christmas Shopping (26/11-29/12) and its impressive decoration. You will find stalls, with Christmas items, in Old Town and to Dominican Square, next to Dominican Church (Dominican Church).
Collegiate Church of St. Martin – Dominican Church
in Likes from cathedrals, with the church St. Martin, You will see Custody room (17 Pl. cathedral), the Museum Bartholdi (30 Rue des Marchands), the Maison Pfister (1537, 11 Rue des Marchands) and Choco Story (12 Pl. cathedral).
Dominican Square
Close to Dominican Square, with the Dominican Church and Dominican Library, you will find it Unterlinden Museum (Pl. Unterlinden).
THE Martin Schongauer (Collar, about 1450-1491), German engraver and painter, created it 1473, for St. Martin, the table “Madonna in the Rose Garden” (The Virgin of the Rose Bush), located in the Dominican Church.
THE Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904), its creator Statue of her Eleftherias N. York, was born in Colmar. In the Bartholdi Museum (1922), which was his father's house, you will see personal items, raft, sculptures, paintings (30 Merchant Rue).
The fountain Schwendi (1898) is the work of Bartholdi.
The Statue of Liberty Colmar (12 m., loyal copy), mounted, from 2004, At the entrance of the city (by Strasbourg), It is work Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.
Statue of Liberty Colmar (copy), At the entrance of the city
Collar, food
The collar, which is built next to the Vosges mountains, is its capital Οινοποιητικής Περιοχής της Αλσατίας, by “Αλσατικό Δρόμο Κρασιού” να μετράει 170 km of route.
Εδώ γίνεται και η ετήσια Alsace Wine Report (Fiore aux Vins d’ Alsace) – Festival wine (τέλη Ιουλίου – early August, information on https://www.tourisme-colmar.com.
Οι συνοικίες Quai de la Poissonnerie and Rue des Turennes, at “Venice”, or Large street and the Place de l’ Former customs (μπροστά από το κτίριο Koifhus), or Likes from cathedrals (to the ST church. Martin) and the Rue des Marchands, είναι από τις πιο δημοφιλείς περιοχές για φαγητό – fun.
Covered walking (Covered market)
OR Colmar covered walking (Covered Purchase Colmar), https://www.marche-couvert-colmar.fr, διαθέτει φρέσκα φρούτα, meats, cheeses, fish, κρασιά Αλσατίας, beers, beverages, coffee, tea, honey, pastries, flowers, gifts.
Αναζητήστε τυπικά αλσατικά προϊόντα such as pretzel (bun in), kougelhopf ή Kugelhopf ή Kuegelhopf (Round cake with raisins, out of streak form), sparezle ή spatzle (pasta kneaded with eggs), meat pie (meat pie), wines of winery Martin Jund (Visible to Colmar), ablaze (nave), fermier (cheeses) like the Munster (Pop), Figuette (τυρί σε σχήμα σύκου από κατσικίσιο γάλα), fromage fermier (τυρί αγροκτήματος).
Θα βρείτε πιτσαρία, bar, cafes and restaurants, με τραπεζάκια φαγητού – beside the river, at “Venice” (13 Street of Schools).
Open, Third – Wednesday – Thursday 8 am-6 pm, Friday 8 am-7 pm, Saturday 8 am-5 pm, Sunday 10 PM-2 pm, Closed on Monday.
Εκτός από την Colmar covered walking, για αλσατικά γλυκά, kougelhopf, cookies, επισκεφθείτε τα Alsatian house of cookie (14 Pl. cathedral, 11 Quai de la Poissonnerie, 16 Boulangers Street).
Koifhus
The Koifhus (1480) or old customs (Former customs), ένα κτίριο γοτθικού – Renaissance, the oldest in the city, hosts, depending on the season, Christmas Shopping and Wine Tasting (29 Grand Rue ή Place de l’ Former customs, very close to the Schwendi fountain).
More information about the city, museums, food, accommodation, in the https://www.tourisme-colmar.com.
