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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Sommelier at  & Wine Tasting Room - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Katsunuma Tunnel Wine Cave in Koshu Yamanashi in the heart of Japan’s wine country.  The tunnel is now used to store wine although the brick tunnel was built in 1903 for a railway line that is now unused.  The tunnel is just over one kilometer long and except for bottles and barrels of wine remains unchanged from its days as Japan Railways' Fukazawa Tunnel.  Throughout the year the temperature is kept around 10 °C, and the humidity is normally around 50% which are ideal conditions for wines to be stored and to mature.  At the moment more than 1 million bottles of wine are stored here.  After Japan Railways abandoned the tunnel and the railway line that once used it it fell into neglect, and was once a popular haikyo URBEX abandoned site for urban explorers,  Now it has new life as an ideal place to store wines in the ever-improving Japanese wine industry of which Yamanashi, and Koshu in particular, are at the heart of.
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  • The combination of climate, soil, temperature and experience has made California wines among the world's best.  The famous or infamous "Judgement of Paris" blind tasting event that put some of the finest wines in France against unknown California bottles. To everyone's surprise, the California wines beat out their French competitors, <br />
breaking the myth that only in France could you make great wine. The winners? Chateau Montelena and the 1973 cabernet sauvignon from Stag's Leap Wine.
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  • Welcome to the Napa Valley! Even though California is a bit smaller than France, it accounts for nearly ninety percent of all American wine production. If California were a separate country, it would be the world's fourth largest wine producer. But Napa and Sonoma counties are much more than merely wine production.  Redwood forests, hot spring resorts and 5 star dining are all part of the scene.
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  • Nearly three quarters the size of France, California accounts for nearly 90 percent of the entire American wine production. The production in California alone is one third larger than that of Australia. If California were a separate country, it would be the world's fourth largest wine producer.
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  • Katsunuma Tunnel Wine Cave in Koshu Yamanashi in the heart of Japan’s wine country.  The tunnel is now used to store wine although the brick tunnel was built in 1903 for a railway line that is now unused.  The tunnel is just over one kilometer long and except for bottles and barrels of wine remains unchanged from its days as Japan Railways' Fukazawa Tunnel.  Throughout the year the temperature is kept around 10 °C, and the humidity is normally around 50% which are ideal conditions for wines to be stored and to mature.  At the moment more than 1 million bottles of wine are stored here.  After Japan Railways abandoned the tunnel and the railway line that once used it it fell into neglect, and was once a popular haikyo URBEX abandoned site for urban explorers,  Now it has new life as an ideal place to store wines in the ever-improving Japanese wine industry of which Yamanashi, and Koshu in particular, are at the heart of.
    katsunuma-tunnel-cave-1.jpg
  • Before Napa and Sonoma were household names, or even a California wine industry at all, there was Buena Vista. Founded in 1857, Buena Vista is California’s oldest winery, and its history is as colorful as it is proud. Just outside the town of Sonoma the original winery is now a California Historic Landmark.
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  • Sonoma Plaza Mural - Sonoma Plaza Mural - Sonoma is a historically significant city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, USA, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past. It was the capital of the short-lived California Republic. Today, Sonoma is a center of the state's wine industry for the Sonoma Valley Wine Appellation.
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  • Buena Vista Winery Sign - Before Napa and Sonoma were household names, or even a California wine industry at all, there was Buena Vista. Founded in 1857, Buena Vista is California's oldest winery, and its history is as colorful as it is proud. Just outside the town of Sonoma the original winery is now a California Historic Landmark.
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  • Before Napa and Sonoma were household names, or even a California wine industry at all, there was Buena Vista. Founded in 1857, Buena Vista is California’s oldest winery, and its history is as colorful as it is proud. Just outside the town of Sonoma the original winery is now a California Historic Landmark.
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  • Downtown Sonoma - Sonoma Plaza Mural - Sonoma is a historically significant city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, USA, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past. It was the capital of the short-lived California Republic. Today, Sonoma is a center of the state's wine industry for the Sonoma Valley Wine Appellation.
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  • Downtown Sonoma - Sonoma Plaza Mural - Sonoma is a historically significant city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, USA, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past. It was the capital of the short-lived California Republic. Today, Sonoma is a center of the state's wine industry for the Sonoma Valley Wine Appellation.
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  • Kamotsuru Sake Brewery, one of the largest and renowned sake breweries in Japan still preserves it architecture complete with red brick chimneys in the old sake-producing town of Saijo, in Hiroshima Prefecture.  One of the reasons why Saijo and Kamotsuru are so renowned for sake is the quality of the water in the area.
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  • Modern Japanese Garden at Chateau Katsunuma - The late 20th century and 21st century has seen a large increase and interest in Japanese gardening.  Most 5 star hotels in Tokyo and Kyoto now find that guests, especially foreign guests, appreciate this unique art form and have come to expect it.  With the "wine boom" in Katsunuma Yamanashi, where the Japanese wine industry is located, there is increasing interest in wine tours.  One of the foremost of these venues is Chateau Katsunuma, one of the finest in the area.  To please its guests, a beautiful Japanese garden has been added to the grounds to enhance the appeal of the property.
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  • Modern Japanese Garden at Chateau Katsunuma - The late 20th century and 21st century has seen a large increase and interest in Japanese gardening.  Most 5 star hotels in Tokyo and Kyoto now find that guests, especially foreign guests, appreciate this unique art form and have come to expect it.  With the "wine boom" in Katsunuma Yamanashi, where the Japanese wine industry is located, there is increasing interest in wine tours.  One of the foremost of these venues is Chateau Katsunuma, one of the finest in the area.  To please its guests, a beautiful Japanese garden has been added to the grounds to enhance the appeal of the property.
    katsunuma-chateau-garden-1.jpg
  • La Petite France lies west of the Grand Île or Strasbourg town center.  The area is a lovely place to visit on foot or even by boat. This historic area is surrounded by water, the River Ill and canals. Many historic half-timbered homes are along the shores of the river and canals. Historically La Petite France was once a poor part of town, occupied by mills and tanneries, both of which depended on the river and its downward flow. The area also served as a port, transporting Alsatian goods such as wine. For many years it was an unsavoury place, until the middle of the 20th century when it was transformed into a charming tourist destination Most of the 16th and 17th century houses have been preserved and restored reflecting beautifully on the water.  Many of these buildings have been converted into cafes and restaurants, and the tanneries and port business are industries of the past.
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  • Half-Timbered Architecture at La Petite France Strasbourg - La Petite France lies west of the Grand Île or Strasbourg town center.  The area is a lovely place to visit on foot or even by boat. This historic area is surrounded by water, the River Ill and canals. Many historic half-timbered homes are along the shores of the river and canals. Historically La Petite France was once a poor part of town, occupied by mills and tanneries, both of which depended on the river and its downward flow. The area also served as a port, transporting Alsatian goods such as wine. For many years it was an unsavoury place, until the middle of the 20th century when it was transformed into a charming tourist destination Most of the 16th and 17th century houses have been preserved and restored reflecting beautifully on the water.  Many of these buildings have been converted into cafes and restaurants, and the tanneries and port business are industries of the past.
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  • Canals of La Petite France Strasbourg - La Petite France lies west of the Grand Île or Strasbourg town center.  The area is a lovely place to visit on foot or even by boat. This historic area is surrounded by water, the River Ill and canals. Many historic half-timbered homes are along the shores of the river and canals. Historically La Petite France was once a poor part of town, occupied by mills and tanneries, both of which depended on the river and its downward flow. The area also served as a port, transporting Alsatian goods such as wine. For many years it was an unsavoury place, until the middle of the 20th century when it was transformed into a charming tourist destination Most of the 16th and 17th century houses have been preserved and restored reflecting beautifully on the water.  Many of these buildings have been converted into cafes and restaurants, and the tanneries and port business are industries of the past.
    petit-france-strasbourg-10.jpg
  • Canals of La Petite France Strasbourg - La Petite France lies west of the Grand Île or Strasbourg town center.  The area is a lovely place to visit on foot or even by boat. This historic area is surrounded by water, the River Ill and canals. Many historic half-timbered homes are along the shores of the river and canals. Historically La Petite France was once a poor part of town, occupied by mills and tanneries, both of which depended on the river and its downward flow. The area also served as a port, transporting Alsatian goods such as wine. For many years it was an unsavoury place, until the middle of the 20th century when it was transformed into a charming tourist destination Most of the 16th and 17th century houses have been preserved and restored reflecting beautifully on the water.  Many of these buildings have been converted into cafes and restaurants, and the tanneries and port business are industries of the past.
    petit-france-strasbourg-9.jpg
  • La Petite France lies west of the Grand Île or Strasbourg town center.  The area is a lovely place to visit on foot or even by boat. This historic area is surrounded by water, the River Ill and canals. Many historic half-timbered homes are along the shores of the river and canals. Historically La Petite France was once a poor part of town, occupied by mills and tanneries, both of which depended on the river and its downward flow. The area also served as a port, transporting Alsatian goods such as wine. For many years it was an unsavoury place, until the middle of the 20th century when it was transformed into a charming tourist destination Most of the 16th and 17th century houses have been preserved and restored reflecting beautifully on the water.  Many of these buildings have been converted into cafes and restaurants, and the tanneries and port business are industries of the past.
    petit-france-strasbourg-1.jpg
  • Half-Timbered Architecture at La Petite France Strasbourg - La Petite France lies west of the Grand Île or Strasbourg town center.  The area is a lovely place to visit on foot or even by boat. This historic area is surrounded by water, the River Ill and canals. Many historic half-timbered homes are along the shores of the river and canals. Historically La Petite France was once a poor part of town, occupied by mills and tanneries, both of which depended on the river and its downward flow. The area also served as a port, transporting Alsatian goods such as wine. For many years it was an unsavoury place, until the middle of the 20th century when it was transformed into a charming tourist destination Most of the 16th and 17th century houses have been preserved and restored reflecting beautifully on the water.  Many of these buildings have been converted into cafes and restaurants, and the tanneries and port business are industries of the past.
    petit-france-strasbourg-5.jpg
  • Half-Timbered Architecture at La Petite France Strasbourg - La Petite France lies west of the Grand Île or Strasbourg town center.  The area is a lovely place to visit on foot or even by boat. This historic area is surrounded by water, the River Ill and canals. Many historic half-timbered homes are along the shores of the river and canals. Historically La Petite France was once a poor part of town, occupied by mills and tanneries, both of which depended on the river and its downward flow. The area also served as a port, transporting Alsatian goods such as wine. For many years it was an unsavoury place, until the middle of the 20th century when it was transformed into a charming tourist destination Most of the 16th and 17th century houses have been preserved and restored reflecting beautifully on the water.  Many of these buildings have been converted into cafes and restaurants, and the tanneries and port business are industries of the past.
    petit-france-strasbourg-7.jpg
  • Half-Timbered Architecture at La Petite France Strasbourg - La Petite France lies west of the Grand Île or Strasbourg town center.  The area is a lovely place to visit on foot or even by boat. This historic area is surrounded by water, the River Ill and canals. Many historic half-timbered homes are along the shores of the river and canals. Historically La Petite France was once a poor part of town, occupied by mills and tanneries, both of which depended on the river and its downward flow. The area also served as a port, transporting Alsatian goods such as wine. For many years it was an unsavoury place, until the middle of the 20th century when it was transformed into a charming tourist destination Most of the 16th and 17th century houses have been preserved and restored reflecting beautifully on the water.  Many of these buildings have been converted into cafes and restaurants, and the tanneries and port business are industries of the past.
    petit-france-strasbourg-4.jpg
  • Towers of Strasbourg are a part of the  Ponts Couverts - The Covered Bridges of Strasbourg - La Petite France lies west of the Grand Île or Strasbourg town center.  The area is a lovely place to visit on foot or even by boat. This historic area is surrounded by water, the River Ill and canals. Many historic half-timbered homes are along the shores of the river and canals. Historically La Petite France was once a poor part of town, occupied by mills and tanneries, both of which depended on the river and its downward flow. The area also served as a port, transporting Alsatian goods such as wine. For many years it was an unsavoury place, until the middle of the 20th century when it was transformed into a charming tourist destination Most of the 16th and 17th century houses have been preserved and restored reflecting beautifully on the water.  Many of these buildings have been converted into cafes and restaurants, and the tanneries and port business are industries of the past.
    petit-france-strasbourg-12.jpg
  • Half-Timbered Architecture at La Petite France Strasbourg - La Petite France lies west of the Grand Île or Strasbourg town center.  The area is a lovely place to visit on foot or even by boat. This historic area is surrounded by water, the River Ill and canals. Many historic half-timbered homes are along the shores of the river and canals. Historically La Petite France was once a poor part of town, occupied by mills and tanneries, both of which depended on the river and its downward flow. The area also served as a port, transporting Alsatian goods such as wine. For many years it was an unsavoury place, until the middle of the 20th century when it was transformed into a charming tourist destination Most of the 16th and 17th century houses have been preserved and restored reflecting beautifully on the water.  Many of these buildings have been converted into cafes and restaurants, and the tanneries and port business are industries of the past.
    petit-france-strasbourg-8.jpg