For our last day in Alsace, we walked back through Riquewihr and wandered the ancient streets and the alleyways. Completely enclosed by a medieval wall in 1291, with three of the four cardinal towers still standing—the Thieves’ Tower, the Anabaptist Tower and the twenty-five metre half-timbered Dolder Tower, considered the landmark in a village with an overabundance of architectural gems and serving as a watchtower and bellfry.
The walls remained after the advent of gunpowder and were reinforced in the seventeenth century with ramparts. The Hรดtel de Ville lies in the Place Voltaire and the fairy tale setting—amalgamated with Ribeauvillรฉ were the inspiration for animators in the Disney adaption of Beauty and the Beast for Belle’s fictional home. While certainly a spot popular with tourists and for good reason, the place certainly was not Disneyland and we are all looking forward to returning soon.
synchronoptica
one year ago: a banger from Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs (with synchronopticรฆ), the Berlin Freedom and Unity monument plus thirty-one days of Halloween
thirteen years ago: ohaguro
fourteen years ago: flag-counters plus der Tag der Deutsche Einheit
