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Colmar travel guide
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.
Colmar is on the Alsace Wine Route
Colmar : tourist information, map, travel plans and gites
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Travel, hotels and holiday gites, Colmar
See the Visit Colmar section above for gites and hotels local to the area. For more general French travel options, see the Gites in France listings, or French holidays for other holidays, and Travel to France for ferries, Colmar car-hire, eurotunnel, cheap flights etc.
Places to visit - Colmar
- Chateau du Haut-Koenigsbourg Alsace castle
- Colmar Alsace town
- Eguisheim Most beautiful village, Alsace
- Ribeauville Alsace town
- Riquewihr Most beautiful village, Alsace
- Selestat Alsace town
- Neuf Brisach Alsace town/village
- Ottmarsheim Alsace town/village
- Murbach Alsace town/village
- Munster Alsace town/village
- Kintzheim Alsace town/village
- Epfig Alsace town/village
- Ebersmunster Alsace town/village
- Soultz-Haut-Rhin Alsace town/village
- Guebwiller Alsace town/village
- Ungersheim Alsace town/village
- Turckheim Alsace town/village
- Kaysersberg Alsace town/village
- Hunawihr Alsace town/village
Any places listed above are within about 20-25 km (as the crow flies)
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