Just a few hundred metres’s stroll from the campgrounds, we crossed the Route des Vins winding through the valleys and explored the ancient village of Riquewihr, preserved in essentially the same state since the sixteenth century. Founded in the 700s as a demesne (Landgut, Dรถmaine) by a Frankish feudal lord called Richo (Richo’s villa), defensive walls and towers were erected and was granted city- and market-rights in the early fourteenth century, eventually purchased by the dukes of Wรผrttemberg across the Rhein.
Charming and picturesque with its half-timbered architecture and cobblestone streets, it is a bit over-touristed—like some other places we’ve made return trips to lately, but not overwhelmingly so, with the day-trippers still secondary to the economic activity of viniculture. We took a break from the crowds and hiked in the vineyards on the foothills of the Vosges for a nice overview, having not planned our vacation with the starting of the Riesling harvest.
synchronoptica
one year ago: ranking the gods (with synchronopticรฆ), Chilean Antarctica plus more brief papacies
fourteen years ago: proprietary geographic protections, illustrating Tarantino plus if the service is free then you are the product
fifteen years ago: more dragnet surveillance from the US plus a trip to Prague
sixteen years ago: an antiquated, nasty habit
