In the Alsace Discharge, To Colmar one appears like a beautiful loaded city of beautiful traditional buildings that have known to maintain, in spite of a conflicting history by its border earth quality.
The city was developed basically from medievo like important point of the vinícola business of the valley of the Rin, and conserves an attractive patrimony.
It has been baptized To overwhelm like City of Art, by his corners and treasures of the gothic and Renaissance time. Nevertheless, the greater art than conserves To overwhelm is that traditional atmosphere, with its houses of carefully conserved wood structure, filled with flowery geraniums in the days of heat.
To overwhelm has an interesting center, dumbfounded of old constructions, a famous museum, Unterlinden, and taken care of Small Venice.
In addition, in the surroundings of the city there are some other points of interest, like the magnificent villa of Riquewihr, and an excellent gastronomy and well-taken care of wines that also go up to around the conception of art.
To overwhelm is a city of pleasant life. Excellent stores in the central zone exist, with good taste, typical of the city with excellent bourgeois life.
The gastronomy of Alsacia is excellent. Between viandas more typical this choucroute alsacienne, protein plate with codillos, sausages, beicon smoked… choucroute, etc.; useful to enter heat during the hard days of the territory.
But there are other simpler plates and digeribles, like the chicken or the trouts to the Riesling, Good etc. he is also foie-grass.
The alsaciana kitchen is good in sweet desserts and, among them popular kugelhopf, done with flour, milk, mantequilla, eggs, sugar and raisins, as well as magnificent cakes.
In cheeses it exists one of the surroundings of strength and quality: the Munster; and as far as drinks, in addition to wines one tastes good beer and excellent brandy.
The culture of the wine in the zone is particularly remarkable. To overwhelm is in the middle of which Route of the Wines is denominated, that begins in the neighborhoods of Strasbourg to finish to the height of Thann.