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The Most Beautiful Villages in Alsace - The Complete Guide
The Most Beautiful Villages in Alsace - The Complete Guide
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Between golden vineyards, cobbled lanes and colourful half-timbered houses, Alsace is home to some of the most...

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What to Do in Obernai in a Day? The Complete Guide
What to Do in Obernai in a Day? The Complete Guide
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The second most visited destination in Bas-Rhin after Strasbourg, Obernai packs everything Alsace has to offer into a...

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The Alsace Wine Route - The Complete Guide
The Alsace Wine Route - The Complete Guide
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170 kilometres, over 70 communes, 7 emblematic grape varieties, 51 Grands Crus and hundreds of half-timbered villages...

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The Kappelturm of Obernai - History of the Belfry and the Market Square
The Kappelturm of Obernai - History of the Belfry and the Market Square
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For more than seven centuries, the Kappelturm has dominated Obernai's Market Square with its 60 metres of Vosges...

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The Pagan Wall of Mont Sainte-Odile - What Is It Really?
The Pagan Wall of Mont Sainte-Odile - What Is It Really?
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11 kilometres long, 5 to 6 metres high, 2 metres thick, 300,000 cyclopean sandstone blocks linked by unique dovetail...

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The Witches of Alsace have arrived...

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The Witches of Bergheim... The small town devotes a museum to the local girls condemned by public rumour to die at the stake.

Alsace is now rediscovering this shameful period of its history...

Les Sorcières de Bergheim

Prodigies and superstitions, historical anecdotes and diableries: Alsace, a land of legends, where the darkest tales and the most magical myths exist side by side.

Like other regions of the Empire, Alsace did not escape this infernal hunt and experienced an unprecedented outburst of violence and cruelty rarely seen elsewhere.

Several thousand Alsatian women were accused of having sold their souls and bodies to the Devil and were handed over to a ruthless justice system on simple denunciation.

 

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