Colmar is the best preserved city in Alsace. As a trading post and river port, Colmar had its heyday in the 16th century, when wine merchands shipped their wine along the waterways running through the picturesque canal quarter,
now known as Petite Venice. Colmar is full of medieval and early Renaissance buildings, half-timbered houses in chalk-box colours, gables and gracious loggias. But also its illustrious past is reflected in its magnificent churches
which houses local jewells as the revered Issenheim Altarpiece.
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