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The speedy new shuttle train links the airport to the train station (€3.50, nine
minutes, four hourly); the ticket also covers your onward tram journey into the city
centre.
Public Transport
Five super-efficient tram lines, A through E, form the backbone of Strasbourg's out-
standing public transport network, run by CTS ( www.cts-strasbourg.fr , in French) .
Tickets, valid on both buses and trams, are sold by bus drivers and ticket machines
at tram stops and cost €1.40 (€2.70 return).
Colmar
POP 67,700
Capital of the Alsace wine region and a happy-ever-after fairy-tale of a city if ever
there was one, Colmar is a beguiling maze of higgledy-piggledy lanes, where
gingerbready half-timbered houses and the tranquil canals of Petite Venise elicit
little gasps of wonder.
Colmar's illustrious past is clearly etched in its magnificent churches and mu-
seums, celebrating local legends from Bartholdi to the Issenheim Altarpiece.