The old centre of COLMAR, a fifty-minute train ride south of Strasbourg, is typically and whimsically Alsatian, with crooked houses, half-timbered and painted, on crooked lanes – all extremely pretty, and very touristy. If you want to stay in a Colmar hotel, check this website. The modern city, however, has sprawled unattractively on both sides of the train tracks. Colmar's attractions don't stop at its buildings; it is also the proud possessor of one of the last and most extraordinary of all Gothic paintings – the altarpiece for St Anthony's monastery at Issenheim, painted by Mathias Grünewald.
Pages in section ‘Colmar’: The Town, Information, Restaurants, Munster, Route des Crêtes.
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