Between cultural exception and exceptional culture

Being unusual , familiar,simple and precious, the Alsatian inheritance evokes the great historical events as much as the daily life of the men. Lords and bumpkins, middle-class men and craftsmen registered in the stone and craftsmen registered in the stone, wood or iron, the print of their authority, their richness, their art.
Area of exchange for more than 2000 years, Alsace has kept of all the times the rich mark History. Center of Europe, intellectual hearth of the Renaissance, but also great industrial area since the XVIII th century, it knew how to keep its identity through ages.Traditional half-timbered houses, Roman vaults or Gothic cathedrals, strengthened boroughs or wilhelmian buildings, old cities miraculously preserved, to amaze you and it knew how to protect its richnesses from the man and ravages of the time.

Between earth of freedom and source of serenity

Benefit from the poetry of the multiple landscapes between the Vosges and the Rhine. Concerned with the quality and the harmony of their environment, the Alsatians knew very early how to protect their sites and to emphasize them to share them with their hosts. The Regional Natural reserve of the Vosges of North abound in a multitude of remarkable biotopes which shelter an unsuspected flora and fauna: carnivorous plants in the peat bogs, roosters of heather on high thatches or lynx in the forests...

Between sports passion and festivals emotion

A multitude of possibilities of sports and leisures are offered to you in Alsace.Relaxation in family, solitary effort or between friends, arranged sites and nature are yours. Benefit from the emotions gotten by the bicycle touring, the pedestrian excursion, or of the strong feelings of the VTT, the rocks of climbing, horsemanship, the sites of praragliding, the golf courses... Relax while visiting the flying of the Eagles or the mountain of the monkeys in Kintzheim close to Haut-Koenigsbourg, and discover the ecomuseum of Alsace in Ungersheim. Here, there are so many discoveries to share.
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And take part in well alive traditions. To know how to preserve and perpetuate them is one of qualities of the Alsatians: craft industry is flourishing here. From the potteries of the Forest to the weavings in the Vosgean valleys, to the puffed up crystal of the northern Vosgesto the polychrome wood of the country of Hanau... all testify to a well alive know-how. And if the Alsatian is famous as a worker, discover that he has also the taste of the festival: carnivalesque cavalcades, fires of Saint-Jean, villages in festival, festivals, are as many occasions to devote oneself to them.