France - Alsace & Lorraine (PDF Chapter)
This is the Alsace & Lorraine chapter from Lonely Planet’s France guidebook.
Here, in the land of living fairy tales, vineyards fade into watercolour distance, hilltop castles send spirits soaring higher than the region’s emblematic storks and half-timbered villages garlanded with geraniums look fresh-minted for a Disney film set.
- wander the canal-laced Petite Venise neighbourhood of Colmar
- maps
- get a gargoyle’s-eye view of Strasbourg from its colossal Gothic Cathédrale Notre-Dame
- transport
- survey the Verdun Battlefields’ cross-studded landscape in the early morning
- restaurants & accommodation
Coverage includes: Alsace, Strasbourg, Route des Vins d’Alsace, Colmar, Massif des Vosges, Mulhouse, Lorraine, Nancy, Baccarat, Metz, Verdun, Ro-magne-sous-Montfaucon.
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