Alsace

Alsace is the smallest French region, located between the Rhine and the Vosges mountains. It seduces by the beauty of its picturesque towns and their colourful and flowered houses. Alsace's savoury cuisine, its storks and its vinyards explain its celebrity. The county town Strasbourg houses the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Human Rights Court. The inner-city has been listed as an Unesco World Heritage site.

Alsace produces well-known white wines and foie gras. The people is considered honest and harsh. This region is at a strategic point causing numerous conflicts between French and Germans. That is why both cultures impregnate the region. Its inhabitants have theur own indivuality: they consider themselves first as Alsatians, then European and lastly as French.

By taking its reputed "Wine Route" (Route des Vins) one discovers the rich vineyards. The wine comes from seven different, mainly white, grapes. Among them: Riesling, Pinot Blanc and Muscat.

The Wine route is 160km long between the Vosges and the Rhine Valley. Colourful and picturesque, one discovers vineyards, little castles, ruins and a few solitary turrets. One will come along charming cities and towns (Colmar, Eguisheim, Kaysersberg, Ribeauvillé, Riquewihr) where paved streets, colourful places and small house with arranged flowers on balconies, window and door sills please the eye. 

Alsace is a fascinating and magical world. While walking through the street of small Alsatian towns one has the feeling of living something unreal. Everything is colourful: the facades, the roofing tiles, the chimneys, doors and balustrades.  

It is a region with of an extraordinary beauty, a great history and a remarkable architectural heritage. Even the most exigent tourist will find something satisfying.

This little enchanted land is worth the trip!