Transport in Strasbourg

Strasbourg has its own airport, serving a limited number of destinations. Train services operate eastward to Offenburg and Karlsruhe in Germany, westward to Metz and Paris, and southward to Basel. Since June 10, 2007, Strasbourg is linked to the European high-speed train network by the TGV Est (Paris-Strasbourg).

Museums in Strasbourg

For a city of comparatively small size, Strasbourg displays a large quantity and variety of museums:

1. The Musé e des Beaux-Arts owns paintings by Hans Memling, Francisco de Goya, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Giotto di Bondone, Sandro Botticelli, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, El Greco, Correggio, Cima da Conegliano and Piero di Cosimo, among others.
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Parks in Strasbourg

Strasbourg features a number of prominent parks, of which several are of cultural and historical interest: the Parc de l'Orangerie, laid out as a French garden by André le Nô tre and remodeled as an English garden on behalf of José phine de Beauharnais, now displaying noteworthy French gardens, a neo-classical castle and a small zoo; the Parc de la Citadelle, built around impressive remains of the 17th-century fortress erected close to the Rhine by Vauban; the Parc de Pourtalè s, laid out in English style around a baroque castle (heavily restored in the 19th century) that now houses the Schiller International University, and featuring an open-air museum of international contemporary sculpture.

Architecture of Strasbourg

The city is chiefly known for its sandstone Gothic Cathedral with its famous astronomical clock, and for its medieval cityscape of Rhineland black and white timber-framed buildings, particularly in the Petite-France district alongside the Ill and in the streets and squares surrounding the cathedral, where the renowned Maison Kammerzell stands out.

History of Strasbourg

From Romans to Renaissance

At the site of Strasbourg, the Romans established a military outpost and named it Argentoratum . (Hence the town is commonly called Argentina in medieval Latin.) It belonged to the Germania SuperiorRoman province. The name was first mentioned in the year 12 BC; the city celebrated its 2, 000th birthday of continuous settlement in 1988.

About Bas Rhin

Bas-Rhin is one of the original 83 dé partements created on 4 March 1790, during the French Revolution.

In the mid-1790s, following the French occupation of the entire left bank of the Rhine, the northern boundary of the dé partement was extended north beyond the Lauter to the Queich river to include the areas of Annweiler am Trifels, Landau in der Pfalz, Bad Bergzabern, and Wö rth am Rhein.

Strasbourg

Is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in northeastern France, with 702, 412 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2007. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the pré fecture (capital) of the Bas-Rhindé partement.

Strasbourg is the seat of several European institutions such as the Council of Europe with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and its European Audiovisual Observatory, the Eurocorps as well as theEuropean Parliament and the European Ombudsman of the European Union.