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  Illustrated Books Alsace - Tourism, Recipes and Alsatian Traditions

  Posted in: Alsatian Heritage & Culture

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  Déco Alsace is expanding its Collection of Illustrated Books about Alsace with 12 new titles. Tourism, heritage, legends, terroir recipes and illustrations by great Alsatian artists - fascinating works to discover and fall in love with Alsace in all its facets.

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  The Kappelturm of Obernai - History of the Belfry and the Market Square

  Posted in: Events, Alsatian Heritage & Culture

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  For more than seven centuries, the Kappelturm has dominated Obernai's Market Square with its 60 metres of Vosges sandstone. Former bell tower of the Chapel of the Virgin, civic belfry, watchtower, guardian of medieval bells - this monument is the beating heart of one of Alsace's most beautiful squares. A journey through history and architecture.

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  Grumbeerekiechle, Alsatian potato fritters just like homemade

  Posted in: Alsatian Recipes

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  The traditional and authentic recipe for Alsatian potato fritters, crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, with tasty variations featuring lardons, gruyère or salmon.

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  Vendanges Tardives and SGN - Alsace's Exceptional Sweet Wines

  Posted in: Alsatian Wines & Gastronomy

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  The Vendanges Tardives and Sélections de Grains Nobles are the two appellations of absolute prestige in the Alsatian wine region. These exceptional sweet wines - produced only in great years, in tiny quantities - rank among the world's finest sweet white wines, capable of rivalling Sauternes and German Trockenbeerenauslesen.

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  Hansi and the Alsatian Resistance - Art as a Weapon against Annexation

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  Jean-Jacques Waltz, known as Hansi, was not merely the picturesque illustrator of a happy Alsace. He was above all a cultural resistance fighter of rare determination, who used his pencil as a weapon against German occupation for nearly fifty years. Condemned by the Kaiser's courts, driven into exile, hunted - his fight for Alsatian identity is one of the most moving pages of regional history.