The city is relatively small (about 67,000 people live here), but very peculiar. You should walk around it to see every corner of this open-air museum. Visitors sometimes think that Colmar is not real, so it looks like a movie set. In half an hour you will walk around the whole center, but impressions for this time you will get for a year ahead. The most attention of tourists usually attracts the so-called half-timbered houses, characteristic of the northern part of Europe.
In Colmar there are a lot of traditional wine bars and restaurants of Alsatian cuisine, where gourmets can take their breath away. In August there is a traditional wine festival with dancing, local bands and, of course, tasting. If you come to Colmar in September, you can get to the annual jazz festival, and in October - to the film festival.
A popular area among romantics is called Petite Venise ("little Venice"). It used to be home to fishermen and leather tanners, but now couples stroll and boat on the Lauch River. The best way to admire the restored houses from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries is from Kozhevniki Street and the Fishmongers' Quay.
Colmar
Little French Venice
This city in the border region of Alsace attracts tourists from all over the world for a reason. It looks like it came straight out of a painting, with its fairytale houses, churches, and canals. The local cuisine is delicious, and the city is known for its unique wines, as it lies along the famous Alsace Wine Route. It’s safe to say that all of Colmar is one big attraction, a place where landmarks from the Middle Ages and even earlier eras have been preserved.
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