Champagne & Northern France - Discover France: Experience the Best of France - page 334

A spiral staircase twists up to the 66m-high platform (adult/child €4.70/2.30;
9am-7.15pm) above the facade, from which the tower and its Gothic openwork spire
soar another 76m.

GRANDE ÎLE
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Historic Quarter

( Langstross) History seeps through winding lanes dotted with candy-coloured
half-timbered houses and vibrant café-rimmed squares in the Unesco World Herit-
age site of Grande Île, a place made for aimless ambling.

PETITE FRANCE
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Historic Quarter

( Alt Winmärik) Criss-crossed by narrow lanes, canals and locks, impossibly
pretty Petite France is where artisans plied their trades in the Middle Ages. Drink in
views of the River Ill and the mighty 17th-century Barrage Vauban Offline map
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much-photographed Ponts Couverts Offline map Google map (Covered Bridges)
and their trio of 13th-century towers.

MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN
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Art Museum

(place Hans Jean Arp; adult/child €6/free; noon-7pm Tue, Wed & Fri, noon-9pm
Thu, 10am-6pm Sat & Sun; Musée d'Art Moderne) This striking glass-and-steel
cube showcases an outstanding collection of fine art, graphic art and photography.
Kandinsky, Picasso, Magritte and Monet canvases hang out alongside curvaceous
works by Strasbourg-born abstract artist Hans Jean Arp.

PALAIS ROHAN
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Historic Residence

(2 place du Château; adult/child €5/free; noon-6pm Mon & Wed-Fri, 10am-6pm
Sat & Sun; Langstross) Hailed a 'Versailles in miniature', this opulent 18th-cen-
tury residence was built for the city's princely bishops, and Louis XV and Marie-An-
toinette once slept here.