This former Etoile hostelry has remarkable windows framed with cable mouldings, mushrooms and fruit. If you walk through several courtyards, you will come to the house which belonged to the winegrowers' corporation.

Built in 1291, the gateway was strengthened in the 15 and 16C. A «sound and light» show is put on every year, relating the eventful history of the town since this fine gateway was erected.

This stone house with scrolled gables and loggia was built in 1610. It is an interesting example of Germanic Renaissance style.

Dating from 1535, the house has a picturesque courtyard with wooden galleries with balusters, a well dating from 1603 and an enormous winepress (1817). Opposite is Behre House which has a fine oriel window dating from 1514, surmounted by latticewor..

Dating from 1574, the house is surmounted by a pediment with an inscription and a bas-relief showing Death seizing the founder of the house. The door, sculpted on the biais to facilitate the entry of vehicles, leads to a typical courtyard with a spir..

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As its name suggests, the square contains several buildings that once had a religious vocation: the former Churches of St Erard and Notre-Dame, converted into residential houses and a 19C Protestant church.

Rebuilt in 1540, this castled has preserved its mullioned windows, a gable crowned with deer antlers and a tower staircase. It is home to the Musée de la Communication en Alsace . In front of the east side of the castle, note a small open-air lapida..

Note its portcullis and the site of the old drawbridge dating from 1600. On the left, the rampart of the Cour des Bergers is dominated by a fortified tower.

Watercolours, lithographs, etchings, decorated earthenware and advertising posters are informatively presented to relate the talent of the Colmar artist and cartoonist, J.-J.Waltz, known as Hansi.

The museum has a collection of local souvenirs, engravings, weapons, utensils, tools, furniture and locks.

Along the street are attractive houses including David-Irion House with a 1551 oriel window and a fine Renaissance door on the courtyard side, the Bouton d'Or House (1556) and Jung House (1683).

This typically Alsatian house dates from 1683. Opposite is an old well, the Kuhlebrunnen.

The small Rue des Juifs gives onto the strange Cour des Juifs, the old Jewish ghetto. At the far end is a narrow passageway and wooden staircase leading to the ramparts and the Thieves' Tower museum. In the 15C, the impoverished inhabitants of Riquew..

In this rather depressing establishment visitors can see the torture chamber, oubliettes, guardroom and the dwelling of the guard of this old prison.

A stagecoach ( diligence ) (1835) stands at the entrance to this museum, which traces the development of communications in Alsace from the Gallo-Roman period to the 20C, including foot messengers, letter post, airmail, the telegraph and the telephone..

This fine house, with an interesting façade, dates back to 1556. The blind-alley next to it leads to the group of buildings known as the Cour de Strasbourg dating from 1597.