A rounded summit of the southern Vosges mountains, 1,247 metres high, where Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comté meet. From the top, the views reach the Black Forest and, on clear days, the Alps.
It's a famous climb in the Tour de France. In summer the high pastures are good for walking; in winter there's skiing and snowshoeing.
Colmar is the most picturesque town in Alsace, with colourful half-timbered houses, flower boxes and canals.
A moated 18th-century château in Lorraine, built by the architect Germain Boffrand for the Prince of Craon, with 365 windows, 52 chimneys and 12 towe…
An extraordinary clock built between 1858 and 1860, in the cathedral of Saint-Jean, with over 30,000 parts and 57 dials showing the time around the w…
Strasbourg's pink sandstone cathedral, with a single spire 142 m high, was the tallest building in the world for over 200 years.
A series of 31 waterfalls on the Hérisson river in the Jura mountains, among them the Éventail, which fans out over 65 metres of rock, and the Grand …
A village and its old abbey at the bottom of a deep limestone valley, a 'reculée' typical of the Jura, closed off by cliffs over 200 metres high.
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