It’s a short, pleasant walk from the Colmar train station into Le Petit Venise (Little Venice), the historic district (really similar to Strasbourg’s Le Petit France), and I am immediately enchanted. Colmar is famous for its half-timbered houses and richly decorated merchants’ mansions. So...
The building has been the subject of a number of tours that I have conducted to it since 2018. A lot more interesting on the inside than it is from the outside, it features an old lift that should not be missed. Retrofitted in 1929, the lift was used to carry children suffering from...
"There's a scrap of apocrypha claiming the Library contracted Isambard Kingdom Brunel to modernize their engineering. I recognized him in the gear arrangements up there." She points. "He had some wild theories about how much work you could save if you could somehow reverse the order of cause...