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   Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg

   A cathedral of pink Vosges sandstone whose single spire, finished in 1439 at a hundred and forty-two metres, made it the tallest building in the world until 1874. Goethe climbed it repeatedly and wrote his first essay on architecture about it.

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   Grande Île, Strasbourg

   The island formed by the river and a canal, holding the historic centre, and in 1988 the first entire city centre anywhere to be listed as World Heritage. The cathedral, the Petite France and the university quarter are all on it.

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   Petite France

   The southwestern corner of the island, where the tanners worked because they needed running water — hence the steep roofs with open lofts for drying hides. It is now the most photographed quarter in Alsace and the canals are crossed by covered bridges.

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   Musée alsacien

   A museum of 1907 in three timber-framed houses, showing pre-industrial rural Alsace — painted furniture, moulds for kugelhopf, and complete rooms brought from farmhouses. It was assembled by a group that thought the culture was disappearing, and it was.

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   Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

   The old masters collection of the city, in the Rohan palace, running from Botticelli and Memling through El Greco and Rubens to Goya. Much of it was bought in the nineteenth century to replace a collection destroyed by Prussian shelling in 1870.

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   Saint Thomas Church, Strasbourg

   The main Lutheran church of Strasbourg, and the only hall church in Alsace, which took that role in 1681 when France annexed the city and gave the cathedral back to the Catholics. Mozart and Albert Schweitzer both played its Silbermann organ, and the Maréchal de Saxe's baroque tomb is inside.

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   Palais Rohan, Strasbourg

   A palace of 1732 built for the Rohan prince-bishops on the model of the Paris hôtels, and now holding three museums at once — archaeology in the cellars, decorative arts on the ground floor and old masters above.

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   Neustadt

   District of Strasbourg laid out from 1880 under German rule, quadrupling the city's area. Its wide avenues and monumental blocks were listed as World Heritage in 2017.

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   St. Paul's Church, Strasbourg

   A Gothic Revival church in Strasbourg, built between 1892 and 1897 and one of the city's landmarks. It was raised for the Lutheran soldiers of the German garrison during the imperial era of Alsace-Lorraine.

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    Old Saint Peter's Church, Strasbourg

    A church first recorded in 1130 and shared, under an arrangement called simultaneum, between Catholic and Lutheran congregations who use separate parts of the same building. Alsace kept several such churches after the wars of religion.

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   Strasbourg astronomical clock

   The third clock to stand in the cathedral, built by Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué in 1842 with a mechanism that computes leap years and the date of Easter automatically. The apostles process past Christ at half past twelve, and a cockerel crows three times.

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   place Kléber

   Central square of Strasbourg, named after a general born in the city. The Aubette building of 1767 lines one side; the Christmas tree has stood here since the sixteenth century.

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   Argentoratum

   The Roman camp founded in 12 BC on the Rhine, garrisoned from about AD 90 by the Eighth Augustan legion, whose bricks turn up all over the old town. The modern street pattern of the island still follows the outline of the fort.

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   Palais du Rhin

   The former imperial palace dominating the Place de la République in the new town of Strasbourg under an enormous dome. With its gardens and stables it is the leading survival of nineteenth-century German building in the city.

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   European institutions in Strasbourg

   The collective name for the European institutions based in Strasbourg in France. The oldest goes back to 1815; there are more than twenty of them, most gathered in the European quarter.

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   Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church

   A church whose name distinguishes it from the two other Strasbourg churches dedicated to Peter, holding a rood screen and a cloister of the fourteenth century and wall paintings older still. It is now Lutheran and its organ is much used for recording.

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   Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame

   The municipal art museum of Strasbourg, covering the art and craft of the Upper Rhine from the early Middle Ages to 1681. It is known for holding the original sculpture, stained glass and architectural drawings of the cathedral.

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   Synagogue du Quai Kléber

   The main synagogue of Strasbourg before the war, built in the 1890s in the German quarter and among the largest in France. The Germans burned and demolished it in 1940; a memorial and a stone outline now mark the site on the quay.

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   Temple Neuf

   A Lutheran church in Strasbourg. It stands on the site of the Dominican friary where Meister Eckhart studied, and was built at the end of the nineteenth century after the old church burned in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

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    Saint-Nicolas Church

    A small Gothic church in which Calvin led services and preached in 1538, during his three years in Strasbourg, and where Albert Schweitzer was later pastor while writing on Bach and organ building.

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