Strasbourg travel guide with information on hotels, restaurants and much more

The City of Strasbourg is the capital of the northern French region of Alsace, at the border with Germany. Formerly a German city, now located in France, Strasbourg is not only a modern bridge between France and Germany or Latin and Germanic cultures, but also the host of European Union institutions like the Council of Europe with the European Court of Human Rights, Eurocorps, European Parliament or the European Ombudsman.

Strasbourg also has the second largest port on the River Rhine and the Grand Ile (Grand Island) attracts yearly a large amount of tourists. Grand Ile or Strasbourg Historical Center has been classified World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1988.

The city has much to offer to its tourists: the Gothic architectural operas like the sandstone Gothic Cathedral and its astronomical clock, the Cathedral of Our Lady and many other old churches and the medieval landscape of Rhineland with the black and white timber-framed buildings located mainly in the Petit-France District. For a relatively small numbers of inhabitants, Strasbourg has a very high density of museums, from which, the most important are: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée de lOeuvre Notre-Dame, Musée dArt moderne et contemporain, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Musée archéologique, Musée Alsacien, Musée zoologique, Le Vaisseau (Science and Technology Center), Musée historique (Museum of History) and Musée dÉgyptologie.