France - Alsace : 6 propriétés

  Alsace is located on France's eastern border and on the west bank of the upper Rhine adjacent to Germany and Switzerland. Historical decisions, wars, and strategic politics have resulted in Alsace being administered as a region within the Republic of France.

 The political, economic and cultural capital as well as largest city of Alsace is Strasbourg. Because that city is the seat of dozens of international organizations and bodies, Alsace is politically one of the most important regions in the European Union.

  Having been early and always densely populated, Alsace is famous for its high number of picturesque villages, churches and castles and for the various beauties of its three main towns, in spite of severe destructions suffered throughout five centuries of wars between France and Germany.

  Alsace is furthermore famous for its vineyards (especially along the 170 km of the Route des Vins d'Alsace from Marlenheim to Thann) and the Vosges mountains with their thick and green forests and picturesque lakes.

• Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg

• The main entrance of the Ouvrage Schoenenbourg from the Maginot Line

• Old towns of Strasbourg, Colmar, Sélestat, Guebwiller, Saverne, Obernai

• Smaller cities and villages: Molsheim, Rosheim, Riquewihr, Ribeauvillé, Kaysersberg, Wissembourg, Neuwiller-lès-Saverne, Marmoutier, Rouffach, Soultz-Haut-Rhin, Bergheim, Hunspach, Seebach, Turckheim, Eguisheim, Neuf-Brisach, Ferrette, Niedermorschwihr and the gardens of the blue house in Uttenhoffen[15]

• Churches (as main sights in otherwise less remarkable places): Thann, Andlau, Murbach, Ebersmunster, Niederhaslach, Sigolsheim, Lautenbach, Epfig, Altorf, Ottmarsheim, Domfessel, Niederhaslach, Marmoutier and the fortified church at Hunawihr

• Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg

• Other castles: Ortenbourg and Ramstein (above Sélestat), Hohlandsbourg, Fleckenstein, Haut-Barr (above Saverne), Saint-Ulrich (above Ribeauvillé), Lichtenberg, Wangenbourg, the three Castles of Eguisheim, Pflixbourg, Wasigenstein, Andlau, Grand Geroldseck, Wasenbourg

• Musée de l'automobile de Mulhouse

• Cité du train museum in Mulhouse

• The EDF museum in Mulhouse

• Ungersheim's "écomusée" (open air museum) and "Bioscope" (leisure park about environment, closed since 1 year ago)

• Musée historique in Haguenau, largest museum in Bas-Rhin outside of Strasbourg

• Bibliothèque humaniste in Sélestat, one of the oldest public libraries in the world

• Christmas markets in Kaysersberg, Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Colmar

• Departmental Centre of the History of Families (CDHF) in Guebwiller

• The Maginot Line: Ouvrage Schoenenbourg

• Mount Ste Odile

• Route des Vins d'Alsace (Alsace Wine Route)

• Mémorial d'Alsace-Lorraine in Schirmeck

• Natzweiler-Struthof, the only German concentration camp on French territory during WWII

• Famous mountains: Massif du Donon, Grand Ballon, Petit Ballon, Ballon d'Alsace, Hohneck, Hartmannswillerkopf

• National park: Parc naturel des Vosges du Nord

• Regional park: Parc naturel régional des Ballons des Vosges (south of the Vosges)