Housed in a 13C Dominican convent, this museum contains works by Grünewald, Schongauer and Isenmann, in particular. Dedicated in part to Rhineland art, it displays impressive collections of paintings, sculptures and minor arts from the late Middle Ag..

The square containing the old customs post, the Rue des Marchands and the Rue Mercière form the heart of the old town. The old Alsace dwellings are in abundance there, most picturesque with their flower-covered balconies, corbelled turrets, oriel win..

Built in 1537 by a hatter of Besancon, with its painted facades, its glassed angular oriels, its delicately sculpted Gallery that supports some attractively worked corbels; this is a true jewel of Alsace architecture.

This large house is a fine example of Renaissance architecture. It has a pointed roof partly hidden by scrolled gables intermingled with pinnacles and countless other decorative details (including more than a hundred sculpted heads on the façade).

The inhabitants of Colmar call this the «Cathedral of Colmar». It is built of red sandstone and two towers flank its main portal. The St Nicholas Portal signed by « Maestro Humbert » is decorated with the legend of the Saint. Inside an organ chest fr..

This very attractive Renaissance house is flanked at the corners by octagonal towers. Further on in the Grand'rue is the Schwendi fountain.

Following the Rue des Tanneurs which runs alongside the canal and the Tanners quarter, and having crossed a bridge over the River Lauch, you will enter into the Krutenau quarter which used to be a fortified suburb, populated by market gardeners. It h..

In this building roofed with varnished tiles, the merchandise subject to communal tax used to be stored in the ground floor of the main building. On the other floor used to sit the representatives of the Decapole, the league of ten free Alsace villag..

Formerly a fortified town inhabited by market gardeners who travelled around the watercourses on board flat-bottomed boat.

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In an old cinema, dolls, horses, airplanes, sewing-machines, wagons and locomotives, an 800 m railway track circuit and animated showcases on the subject of the funfair.

This remarkable and surprisingly slender space is lit by 14 C stained-glass windows and above all by the magnificent Virgin in the rose bush (1473), a masterpiece of rare elegance by Martin Schongauer.

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This old Franciscan Church (13 and 14 C) has recovered all its harmony thanks to a restoration carried out with taste. Above the right collateral aisle, do not miss the stained-glass window of the Great Crucifixion attributed to Pierre d'Andiau (15..

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Dating from 1315, this house is the oldest in Colmar. In the same square the old guard house for the town (1575) has a magnificent loggia.

This is the lower part of the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi (1834 - 1904) that has been converted into a museum of local history. On the floor above the life and works of the creator of the Lion of Belfort, of Vercingetorix of Clermont and of the S..

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