Colmar is the Alsace wine region capital and as one guide book says ‘looks for all the world as though it has been plucked from the pages of a medieval folk tale'
‘Petite Venise’….
Maison des Têtes, a house built in 1609 by a wealthy wine merchant who festooned it with 106 grimacing faces and heads of animals, devils and cherubs
Is this one happy or shocked?
Maison Pfister (15th century) with its delicately painted panels, elaborate oriel window and carved wooden balcony
3 km north of the old town is this 12 metre high replica of the Statue of Liberty. It was erected to mark the centenary of the death of local boy Frêdêric Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904), creator of the New York statue (bet you didn’t know that!). This one is rather inelegantly placed in the middle of a busy roundabout.
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