Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Strasbourg, France

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.9 km
Ascend 198 m
Descend 193 m

Experience Strasbourg in France in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in StrasbourgIndividual Sights in Strasbourg

Sight 1: Jardin Botanique

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The Jardin Botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg, also known as the Jardin botanique de Strasbourg and the Jardin botanique de l'Université Louis Pasteur, is a botanical garden and arboretum located at 28 rue Goethe, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. It is open daily without charge.

Wikipedia: Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg (EN)

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Musée de Sismologie et de Magnétisme Terrestre

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The Museum of Seismology and Terrestrial Magnetism is a museum in Strasbourg, located on the historic campus opposite the botanical garden of the University of Strasbourg. It depends on the School and Observatory of Earth Sciences (EOST), which is a component of the University of Strasbourg. The museum presents an important collection of instruments for measuring seismology and recording the Earth's magnetic field as well as their evolution over the years. They are on display in the former seismological station in Strasbourg.

Wikipedia: Musée de sismologie et de magnétisme terrestre (FR), Website

1202 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 3: Parc Contades

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The Parc du Contades is a public park in the city of Strasbourg. Located in the Neustadt, it was created in 1764 by Marshal Louis Georges Erasmus de Contades on the site of a former shooting range ("Schiessrain").

Wikipedia: Parc du Contades (Strasbourg) (FR)

639 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 4: Musée Tomi Ungerer Centre International de l'Illustration

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The Tomi-Ungerer Museum – International Centre for Illustration, located in Strasbourg, brings together a large collection of drawings, archives, toys and magazines donated to his hometown by the French artist Tomi Ungerer (1931-2019).

Wikipedia: Musée Tomi Ungerer (FR), Website

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Pfälzerhaus

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The pfälzerhaus is a historical monument located in Strasbourg, in the French department of Bas-Rhin.

Wikipedia: Pfälzerhaus (FR)

295 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Lycée International des Pontonniers

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The Lycée International des Pontonniers (French: Lycée international des Pontonniers is a French high school in Strasbourg, in the Bas-Rhin department of France. It is situated in the city's center, near the Strasbourg Cathedral.

Wikipedia: Pontonniers International High School (EN)

502 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 7: Opéra du Rhin

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The Strasbourg Opera House, located on Place Broglie on the Grande Île in the city center of Strasbourg, in the French department of the Bas-Rhin, is the main seat and mother house of the opera company Opéra national du Rhin. It has been classified as a Monument historique since 1921.

Wikipedia: Strasbourg Opera House (EN)

78 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Général Leclerc

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Général Leclerc

Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque was a Free-French general during the Second World War. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc or just Leclerc.

Wikipedia: Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (EN)

265 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Palais épiscopal

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The Episcopal Palace, formerly known as the Hôtel du grand Doyenné, is the seat of the Archdiocese of Strasbourg. A French Baroque hôtel particulier of the 1720s, it is located between Rue du Parchemin and Rue Brûlée, near Place Broglie, on Grande Île, the historic city center of Strasbourg, in the French department of the Bas-Rhin, Alsace. It has been classified as a monument historique since 1929.

Wikipedia: Episcopal Palace, Strasbourg (EN)

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Hôtel de la Préfecture

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Hôtel de la PréfectureAlexandre Prévot from Nancy, France / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Hôtel de Klinglin, currently known as the Hôtel du Préfet, is a historic building located near Place Broglie on the Grande Île in the city center of Strasbourg, in the French department of the Bas-Rhin. It has been classified as a Monument historique since 1970.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Klinglin (EN)

288 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Ancien Hôtel des Joham de Mundolsheim

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The Hôtel des Joham de Mundolsheim is a historical monument located in Strasbourg, in the French department of Bas-Rhin.

Wikipedia: Hôtel des Joham de Mundolsheim (FR)

304 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: La Maison Kammerzell

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La Maison Kammerzell

The Kammerzell House is one of the most famous buildings of Strasbourg, France, and one of the most ornate and well-preserved medieval civil housing buildings in late Gothic architecture in the areas formerly belonging to the Holy Roman Empire.

Wikipedia: Kammerzell House (EN)

52 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Büchmesser

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The Büchmesser, "belly measurer", is a sandstone column dating from 1567 located at the corner of 11 rue Mercière and the square in front of the Notre-Dame de Strasbourg cathedral, on which rests the corbelling of the former Stag pharmacy, the oldest parts of which date back to the fifteenth century. The Büchmesser has been classified as a historical monument since 1936.

Wikipedia: Büchmesser (FR)

157 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame

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Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame

The Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame is the city of Strasbourg's museum for Upper Rhenish fine arts and decorative arts, dating from the early Middle Ages until 1681. The museum is famous for its collection of original sculptures, glass windows, architectural fragments, as well as the building plans of Strasbourg Cathedral. It has a considerable collection of works by Peter Hemmel von Andlau, Niclas Gerhaert van Leyden, Nikolaus Hagenauer, Ivo Strigel, Konrad Witz, Hans Baldung and Sebastian Stoskopff.

Wikipedia: Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame (EN)

132 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Palais Rohan

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Palais Rohan Radek Kucharski / CC BY 2.0

The Palais Rohan in Strasbourg is the former residence of the prince-bishops and cardinals of the House of Rohan, an ancient French noble family originally from Brittany. It is a major architectural, historical, and cultural landmark in the city. It was built next to Strasbourg Cathedral in the 1730s, from designs by Robert de Cotte, and is considered a masterpiece of French Baroque architecture. Since its completion in 1742, the palace has hosted a number of French monarchs such as Louis XV, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon and Joséphine, and Charles X.

Wikipedia: Palais Rohan, Strasbourg (EN)

223 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Musée archéologique

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The Musée archéologique of Strasbourg, France is the largest of the numerous Alsacian museums displaying regional archeological findings from Prehistory to the Merovingian dynasty. It is located in the basement of the Palais Rohan.

Wikipedia: Musée archéologique (Strasbourg) (EN), Website

20 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 17: Musée des arts décoratifs

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Musée des arts décoratifs Cette infographie JPG a été créée avec Hugin. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Museum of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg is a museum dedicated to the decorative arts, located on the ground floor of the former residence of the prince-bishops of the Alsatian metropolis, the Palais Rohan.

Wikipedia: Musée des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (FR), Website

18 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 18: Musée des Beaux-Arts

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Musée des Beaux-Arts

The Strasbourg Museum of Fine Arts is located in the Palais Rohan next to the cathedral.

Wikipedia: Musée des beaux-arts de Strasbourg (FR), Website

143 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Musée Historique

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Musée Historique Szeder László / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Musée historique is a museum in Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin department of France. It is located in the Renaissance building of the former slaughterhouse and is dedicated to the tumultuous history of the city from the early Middle Ages until the contemporary period.

Wikipedia: Musée historique de Strasbourg (EN), Website

275 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: Cour des Couples

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The Cour des Couples is a historical monument located in Strasbourg, in the French department of Bas-Rhin.

Wikipedia: Cour des Couples (FR)

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 21: Musée Alsacien

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The Musée alsacien is a museum in Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin department of France. It opened on 11 May 1907, and is dedicated to all aspects of daily life in pre-industrial and early industrial Alsace. It contains over 5000 exhibits and is notable for the reconstruction of the interiors of several traditional houses. It also features a rich collection of artifacts documenting the everyday life of Alsatian Jews.

Wikipedia: Musée alsacien (Strasbourg) (EN), Website

236 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: Pont Saint-Nicolas

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The Saint-Thomas Bridge is a metal arch bridge that crosses the Ill in the Finkwiller district of Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin). This cast-iron structure was built in 1841 by the brothers of Dietrich de Reichshoffen, under the direction of Nicolas Cadiat, according to the plans of the engineer Antoine-Rémy Polonceau, designer of the Carrousel bridge in Paris in the 1830s. It is one of the oldest preserved cast iron bridges in France.

Wikipedia: Pont Saint-Thomas (FR)

290 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 23: Chevalier Liebenzeller

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Chevalier Liebenzeller

The Battle of Hausbergen was a historic military engagement that took place in the Alsace region of northeastern France on 8 March 1262. The battle marked the release of the 'burghers' (citizens) of Strasbourg from episcopal authority and gave the bourgeoisie control over politics and commerce. The battle occurred on the fields of Hausbergen, an area of countryside a few miles northwest of the city of Strasbourg. It resulted in the decisive victory of the townsmen over the forces of the Bishop of Strasbourg, Walter of Geroldseck and the granting of free imperial city status by King Philip of Swabia to Strasbourg.

Wikipedia: Battle of Hausbergen (EN)

390 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 24: Grande Île

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The Grande Île is an island that lies at the historic centre of the city of Strasbourg in France. Its name means "Large Island", and derives from the fact that it is surrounded on one side by the main channel of the Ill river and on the other side by the Canal du Faux-Rempart, a canalised arm of that river. The Grande Île was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. At the time, the International Council on Monuments and Sites noted that the Grande Île is "an old quarter that exemplifies medieval cities". Strasbourg was the first city to have its entire city center be listed as a World Heritage Site.

Wikipedia: Grande Île, Strasbourg (EN)

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: Monument du Général Kléber

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The General Kléber Monument is a historical monument located on Place Kléber in Strasbourg, in the French department of Bas-Rhin.

Wikipedia: Monument du général Kléber (FR)

358 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 26: Maison Ferrier

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The Ferrier House is an eighteenth-century historical monument, located on Grand-Rue in Strasbourg.

Wikipedia: Maison Ferrier (FR)

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: La Petite France

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La Petite France, in Alsatian dialect: Französel is the south-western part of the Grande Île of Strasbourg in Alsace in eastern France, the most central and characteristic island of the city that forms the historic center. The district is bounded to the north by the Quai de la Bruche (Brischstade), the Rue du Bain-aux-Plantes, the Place Benjamin-Zix and the Rue des Dentelles; to the east by the Rue du Pont-Saint-Martin, the Pont Saint-Thomas and the Mills footbridge; to the south by the Channel of Zorn-Mühle; to the west by the Covered Bridges.

Wikipedia: Petite France, Strasbourg (EN)

394 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 28: Monument Stoeber

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The Stoeber Fountain (Stœberbrunnen) is a fountain located on the Place du Vieux-Marché-aux-Vins (Stöwerplätzel) in the historic centre of Strasbourg.

Wikipedia: Fontaine Stoeber (FR)

835 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 29: Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain

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Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain inconnu / Image non libre

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg (MAMCS) was inaugurated by Catherine Trautmann, then Minister of Culture and former mayor of Strasbourg, in December 1998. It was built by the architect Adrien Fainsilber on the left bank of the Ill, opposite the headquarters of the European Collectivity of Alsace and near the Vauban dam and the picturesque district of Petite France. The Place Jean-Arp, on which the museum opens, also houses the northern part of the National Institute of Public Service, located in the former Saint-Jean commandery.

Wikipedia: Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (Strasbourg) (FR), Website

1916 meters / 23 minutes

Sight 30: Cimetière juif de Koenigshoffen

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The Koenigshoffen Jewish Cemetery is a historical monument located in the Koenigshoffen district of Strasbourg, in the French department of Bas-Rhin.

Wikipedia: Cimetière juif de Koenigshoffen (FR)

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