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Enjoy our video of Southern Alsace

with Destination Alsace. Click on the picture below.

 

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Pfiffertaj in Ribeauvillé : September 6th and 7th 2008

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A musicians' village

During the 14th century, a number of powerful landowners set about building the village's outer wall and also laid the foundations for its castle. They offered protection to travellers, wandering artists, acrobats and travelling musicians known simply as "ménétriers".

 

Hundertwasser

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31 may – 5 october 2008

Eight years after the death of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, certainly the best-known Austrian artist of the second half of the 20th century, a retrospective devoted to this painter, architect and social critic has been organised by the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, widely considered as a leading cultural institution for the art of German-speaking lands, owing to its geographical location and its unequalled late Gothic collections.

 

Jazz Festival

Festival Jazz

Mulhouse from 14th to 30th August 2008

The festival is the main activity of the Jazz association in Mulhouse. For fifteen days you can hear all the jazz you want in various concert settings. FREE MUSIC is one of the biggest European modern jazz, improvisation and modern music events… Come and see !

 

Garden festival Wesserling Park - Textile Museum

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From June 15th to October 5th 2008

Wesserling Park (42 acres) is a unique witness to the textile industry in Alsace. A stately home, several mansions, a farmhouse and a textile museum overlook magnificent gardens. The complex is registered as a place of historic interest by the French National Trust.

 

Our Environment puts on a great show !

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Since its opening in 2006 the Alsace leisure park „Le Bioscope“ has been all about the environment. Visitors are to discover our planet and its fragile balance through interactive games, breath-taking shows and fun animations.

 

Rétrospective - Serge POLIAKOFF (1900-1969)

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composition Abstraite, 1960/ huile sur toile / 130 x 97 cm

(70 paintings, 120 gouaches et 40 engravings)

From May 31st until September 28th 2008

Painter of Russian origin, he is studying in Paris from 1923, then in London. It makes friends with Kandinsky, Otto Freundlich and Robert Delaunay which bring some change in it towards abstraction.

 

The Garden of Butterflies in Hunawihr

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As you travel along the Alsace Wine Route, taking in all the delicacies that each stop has to offer.
Take some time out between two of the most popular tourist villages – Ribeauvillé and Riquewihr - to come and feast your eyes on our fascinating colony of exotic butterflies living in a natural habitat of luxurious floral surroundings.

 

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Garden's discoveries

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Eguisheim squire's walk

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A la carte walking tour

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Romantic stay in Colmar