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COLMAR
Description:
Colmar is a beautiful Alsatian town, located midway between Basel and French Strasbourg. Its oldest part is like an open-air museum, where you can see buildings of all architectural styles of the Middle Ages and modern times, such as a unique House of Heads, the oldest Pfister house, a Dominican monastery , the Little Venice district etc. The climate of the city is very favorable for wine-making and the number of vineyards in Colmar vies with Bordeaux, although it mainly specializes in white wines. Summer festival of Alsatian wines is held here in August as well as the Colmar International Festival of Culture and many other interesting activities.
Climate
Despite the fact that the climate of Colmar is of semi-continental type, it is considered to be the driest in France, competing only with Marceille. The average January temperature is 1 ° C, that of July 20 ° C.Transport
The nearest airports are situated in Basel and Strasbourg. Colmar has its own railway station, connecting it with these cities. The central part of the city can be easily discovered on foot. Public transport outside of the old Colmar is represented by a network of buses also connecting it with neighboring German and French cities.
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