Feel the holiday cheer when you walk through the adorable streets of Colmar. The lights are strung across the gingerbread-style buildings, the Christmas trees are lined up one after the other and the visitors are bundled up as they shop for their gifts — a snapshot of pure joy!
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N48° 04' 33.4164"E7° 21' 32.5476"
This image was taken on the steps of the town building near the intersection of Grand Rue and Rue des Marchands in Colmar. Walk up the exterior stairs and then face west for this perspective on the street.
Colmar is a town on the northeast side of the country. To get here, you can either take a train, drive (park in Place du Marché-aux-Fruits and then walk north) or fly into the Colmar Airport.
By train:
- Closest station: Colmar (via OUIGO, TER or TGV INOUI)
- Head northeast on Place de la Gare toward Rue Georges Lasch
- Turn right onto Rue Georges Lasch
- Continue onto Rue Messimy
- At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Rue Camille Schlumberger
- Turn right onto Rue de Reims
- Slight left onto Rue Bruat
- Continue onto Rue des Blés
- Rue des Blés turns slightly left and becomes Grand Rue
- Turn right on Rue des Marchands
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