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ficuscarica
11-30-2012, 01:01 PM
This French-Germanic region is Baden´s closest relative and my favourite region in Europe in terms of beauty (architecture and landscape).
In the east there is the wide, flat rhine valley (Baden on the other side of the river, but in the same wide valley), followed by pittoresque timber-frame villages and towns in the hilly vineyards, and in the west there are the forested Vosges mountains, which separate it from "inner France".

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Alsace_in_France.svg/299px-Alsace_in_France.svg.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Alsace_topo.png/310px-Alsace_topo.png



Enjoy the pics:


http://cheeseweb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/20110705_Strasbourg_0068.jpg
https://s3.amazonaws.com/backroads_web/images/trips/2013/slideshowsnew/BASI-alsace-biking-11.jpg
http://insidersabroad.s3.amazonaws.com/france_photos/regional_photos/Alsace-winery.jpg
(in the background you see the Black Forest in Baden)
http://discoverthetrip.com/uploads/images/3905-Alsace_France_Europe_06.01.2012_2.jpg
http://www.totalwine.com/static/images/www/pages/Image/Guide_to_Wine/France/Alsace/Alsace1.gif
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2012/10/2/1349190376868/Alsace-France-010.jpg
http://t.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/known_places/1280x960/Rodern_HautRhin_Alsace_France_1280x960.jpg
http://www.aftouch-cuisine.com/images/regions/Alsace1.jpg
http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/photographieundmehr/photographieundmehr1208/photographieundmehr120800126/15054216-the-medieval-city-walls-of-riquewihr-german-reichenweier-in-alsace-france.jpg
http://www.hdpixer.com/data/media/10/big/riquewihr_village__alsace_wine_route__france.jpg
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/186/6/9/Lumiere_Divine_d__Alsace_by_Khol363.jpg

purple
11-30-2012, 01:10 PM
I once sold a carpet there

ficuscarica
11-30-2012, 01:32 PM
http://www.seilly.com/sites/default/files/imce/HD_0.jpg
http://images.cdn.fotopedia.com/XKFsYel1z0A-JIVTHH4GdLQ-hd.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/42407103.jpg
http://lh6.ggpht.com/-EyuEHxRgjMY/TFLXhP3HYUI/AAAAAAAAASk/NTxJIi6WWoQ/IMG_0033.JPG
http://images.cdn.fotopedia.com/pixelterror-_851UuQoKWE-hd.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/29477733.jpg
http://iledecremant.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/turckheim1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Niedermorschwihr.jpg
http://photos.itea.fr/photos/gites68/G/photo12/68G6511.jpg
http://fr.academic.ru/pictures/frwiki/83/Saint-Hippolyte_071.JPG

Vesuvian Sky
11-30-2012, 01:39 PM
According to one of the map your familial surnames site, one of my ancestral surnames is from this region quite frequently - generally the Franco-German border area.

Nice country scenes though.

Englisc
11-30-2012, 02:37 PM
Just look at the names in Alsace - Elsass.

Most of them are German.

Stassbourg - from Strass, street, and Burg, castle.

Wissembourg - From Weissen, white and Burg, castle.

Selestat - Notice stadt, "town".

ficuscarica
12-01-2012, 12:57 PM
German perfection and skill + French climate and sense for beauty = perfection

http://www.all-free-photos.com/images/alsace/IM1313-hr.jpg
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/23857371.jpg
http://www.webagoo.eu/bibliotheques/42161/documents/blog/2012/ot-rouffach-Gueberschwihr.jpg

ficuscarica
12-01-2012, 01:24 PM
http://www.bikerpeters.de/Startseite/Touren/Elsass06/Elsass06Bild38klein.JPG
http://www.chocolate-fish.net/albums/France/Alsace/Alsace_Barr-street2.jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/7c/22/37/from-our-balcony.jpg

I tried to find pics that communicate the special atmosphere when it is not sunny, but rainy/cloudy or cold (for example in winter):
http://img.fotocommunity.com/France/Alsace-Elsass/Die-Kirneck-im-Winter-in-Barr-Elsass-a20119598.jpg
http://www.eurobike.at/static/cms/eurobike/touren/frankreich/elsass_bilderbuch/eb_elsass-bilderbuch.jpg
http://www.tours-a-la-carte.com/data/Image/feste-touren/WINTER-Spezial/OR-paysage-neigeopie.jpg
http://www.hotel-europe-colmar.com/maj/images_resized/2388-so-2012activites-photo1-fr2.jpg
http://alexschmidt-photography.com/wpblog/wp-content/gallery/strassbourg-nacht-2011/elsasstour_2011-2164.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5110248774_bf87f0e7a3.jpg
http://www.fertig-reisen.de/cms/upload/50plus/Frankreich/Elsass/mittelbergheim_Christian_FLEITH_ADT67_C.FLEITH.jpg

ficuscarica
12-01-2012, 01:56 PM
BUMP

this thread deserves to be seen

You can also add beautiful pictures!