Mulhouse is one of the three largest and most important cities in Alsace. He is inferior to Strasbourg in size and significance, and Colmar is in tourist attraction: there is not such an astounding amount of pastoral cute little fachwerk. Nevertheless, Mulhouse has its own character and a number of features that make it extremely attractive for travelers.
One of the most pleasant features of Mulhouse for those who travel through Europe on their own is its location. Of the major cities, this is the closest to both the German and the Swiss border. After settling in Mulhouse, you can reach either the Swiss Basel or the German Mühlheim in half an hour. A train ticket to Mulhouse from Freiburg-in-Breisgau includes a transfer to Mülheim on a bus, and a further trip to the main station.
Not to mention the fact that Mulhouse, of course, is located on the Alsatian wine route: it is the first a large city from its inception. Accordingly, hundreds and thousands of connoisseurs and connoisseurs of fine Alsatian wines gather here during the season
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How to get to Mulhouse
Easiest - By train from Strasbourg. Also, of course, from Freiburg or Basel - also easy. Extremely convenient - on a rented car or bicycle along the main regional highway. Finally, shuttle service from the general airport of the three Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg countries, which is located near the French Saint-Louis. By the way, the airport is noteworthy in itself: it is the only one in the world managed on an equal footing by the two countries, Switzerland and France.
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- Visit the museum of retro cars
- Go to the tower of Europe
- Drive to Basel (37 km), spend the day there and by the evening happy to return to France
Unlike the small and chamber Colmar, Mulhouse - developing, quite large and dynamic . There is, of course, also the Old Town, but in comparison with clearing the Alsatian cities, he does not have much to offer hunters to postcards to tourists . In general, Mulhouse personifies the Alsatian modernity . It's enough to go to the square of Europe and see a sculpture from automobile parts in front of the City hall to see for yourself . And all the outskirts of the city are all industrial enterprises: Mulhouse was one of the first among the rapidly developing French cities during the industrial revolution .
Despite the foregoing, it would be wrong to expect from Mulhouse urban fussiness - it does not exist here . At noon this city is no different from any other in Alsace: silence, lack of people, single locals sit down with a newspaper in a cafe or walk dogs in specially allocated for this area of city squares .There are many squares in Mulhouse, and the architectural style of the city is mostly eclectic from the German-French-Swiss Renaissance, neoclassicism and baroque with interspersed medieval Gothic . In the expensive quarter of Rebberg, for example, you will come across exclusively private villas surrounded by greenery . Here are located near the green botanical and zoological gardens . In combination, all this resembles in places a domestic suburb of monarchic times, like Tsarskoe Selo, and in places - almost Rigu .
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Entertainment, excursions and attractions Mulhouse
Most canonically sights Remarkably in Mulhouse - Reunion is the area in front of the cathedral of Saint-Etienne. Here you can admire the cathedral itself, the old red-and-pink town hall (now the historical museum of the city is located in its building) and picturesque narrow houses. With the amendment that if you came here from Strasbourg, everything you see will hardly impress you greatly.
Then you can go with a clear conscience outside the Old Town. First of all, it is worth entering the area of Europe. There the European boulevard crosses the Rue de Metz, and there is also a modern shopping center and the tower of the same name, which is a unique building for Alsace with a height of more than one hundred meters. The tower reflects the unique location of the city, and its three faces face each other in the nearest European country. Almost on the top floor there is a restaurant with a panoramic view.
If you move from Europe Square along Colmar Street (you can walk, but better, of course, by car or tram), you will reach museum of retro cars. This must be done, even if you are not an obsessed autofanat: the museum is beautifully decorated and is considered the largest in the whole of Europe. For fans of more traditional museums in the city also has something to offer: museums of fine arts, fabric prints, railway. All of them are located closer to the center.
As in many French cities (in the same Strasbourg), there is a street in Sevastopol . in Sevastopol. At the corner of it and the street of El Salvador is the green square of Salvador, quiet and serenely calm . A at the end of it, behind Stalingrad street, stands the Gothic church of Saint Genevieve 1890 . buildings with a harmonious silhouette and beautiful window stained glass windows . Other interesting from an aesthetic point of view the churches of Mulhouse are the symmetrical Gothic basilica of the Catholic church on Magenta street and the Jewish synagogue Mr. and the Synagogue Street . If you talk about the secular historical places of interest in Mulhouse, you can first of all recall the medieval tower of the 14th-century Bolverk, the only one left from the fortress wall . Then the Devil's Tower, a primitive, rectangular and unattractive but famous dark history: here were imprisoned and tortured unhappy, suspected of witchcraft . Finally, curious is the building of the city theater in Italian style on Ciné Street .
Mulhouse hosts several festivals every year and even a small carnival. Among the particularly lush city festivals are the street art festival, beer and music festivals, carnival in winter and, of course, the traditional winter fair before Christmas.