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Orientation to Eguisheim
The TI has free Wi-Fi and information on bus schedules, festivals, vineyard walks, and
Vosges Mountain hikes (July-Sept Mon-Sat 9:30-12:00 & 14:00-18:00, Sun 10:30-12:30;
shorter hours and closed Sun off-season, 22 Grand Rue, tel. 03 89 23 40 33, www.ot-
eguisheim.fr ). They're happy to call a taxi for you (about €15 to Colmar).
Eguisheim's bus stop is at the top end of the village on Place Charles de Gaulle (see
map, same stop for both directions).
Winemaker Jean-Luc Meyer has bikes for rent (€6/4 hours, €12/day, daily
8:30-19:00, 4 Rue des Trois Châteaux, tel. 03 89 24 53 66).
Public WCs are located in the lower pay parking lot, and automatic WC cabins are
a few steps from the fountain on Place du Château Saint-Léon, in a courtyard off Cours
Unterlinden (hidden on the right).
Self-Guided Walk
Welcome to Eguisheim
(See “Eguisheim” map, here . )
Draw a circle and then cut a line straight through it. That's your plan with this inviting
little town. The main drag (Grand Rue) cuts through the middle with gates at either end
and a stately town square in the center. And, while Eguisheim's town wall is long gone, it
left a circular lane (Rue du Rempart—Nord and Sud) lined with gingerbread-cute houses.
Start your visit at the bottom of town (near the TI) and circle the former ramparts
clockwise, walking up Rue du Rempart Sud. The most enchanting and higgledy-piggledy
view in town is right at the start of the loop (at the tight Y in the road; go left and uphill).
Rue du Rempart Sud is more picturesque than Rue du Rempart Nord, but I'd walk the
entire circle. You'll see that what was once the wall is now lined with 13th- to 17th-cen-
tury houses—a cancan of half-timbered charm. You're actually walking a lane between
the back of fine homes (on the left) and their barns (on the right). Look for emblems of
daily life: religious and magical symbols, dates on lintel stones, little hatch doors leading
to wine or coal cellars, and so on. (Everything looks sharp because the government sub-
sidizes the work locals do on their exteriors.) Along the way, you may bump into Chez
Thierry'ssausagestand(plentyoftastysamples)andFredericHertzog'sfarmhousecheese
shop (try the Munster cheese—made in the town of Munster just up the valley). The loop
takes a decidedly hip turn along its northern half, as you pass an art gallery, a cool coffee
shop, and a trendy bar.
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