A boat journey around the city of Strasbourg
Strasbourg that is considered as one of the prominent and noted tourist centers in France along with the French capital Paris can be best enjoyed on cruise tour on the river Ill on which the entire city is situated. For a boat tour you can enquire with Strasbourg hotels that too provide the enjoyable boat ride across the city. There are many boats trips to the city that are equipped with the ventilated blows up on the side of the windows and there shades are pulled across the roof. The boat cruises around Strasbourg moves around in a clockwise direction. As you leave the fasten you will encountered with the Cour du Corbeau on the left and the old butcher's hall on the right. While passing under the Pont du Corbeau (Raven's Bridge), you will horrified to learn that adulterers were put into cages here and lowered into the river Ill for their misadventures.
After leaving the bridge the back away next you will be encountered with the 14th century custom house at your right and there next you will watch out the Alsace Museum that is into the straight opposite direction. The next spot there on is the Maison de Pasteur. The after the St. Nicolas church on your left is one of the oldest French speaking Protestant church in Strasbourg Albert Schweitzer, the winner of the Noble Peace Prize preached about as between 1899 and 1913. The next bridge there is Pont St-Thomas, and the Protestant church of the same name is there is on a street to the right – that is the beautiful gothic building in Strasbourg. St-Louis square is there located on the left of the bridge, where a small theatre is situated in the earlier used to be Sauerkraut factory.Pont St-Martin is also learnt as washing bridge as the poor used to wash their clothes here while the rich used the cleaner water upstream.
On the tour there could be a stay at the hotel Petit France where the boat rises to the level to the pedestrian level. Next important spot after the Petit France is the Ponts Couverts. There four bridges crossing the river Ill were made to keep the gunpowder dry and not for the protection of the soldier, a strange logic was thriving there! Next to it is the Vauban dam that was constructed to flood the southern city in case of the attack from the enemy.
With the continuity the boat travels along the northern part of the city. There on the left is located the Ste-Marguerite, that at a time in past was a hospital, then converted into a barracks and until 1988, there was a prison. The executioner's tower there is on the right as you moves ahead and is notoriously is famous for as cutting the tongue for blasphemy before it was off with your head. There are many other interesting and loving places there are on the travel to Strasbourg but the places worth visiting there includes as the futuristic European Court of Human Rights as designed by Richard Rogers, the Cathedral and many more interesting spots all around.
After leaving the bridge the back away next you will be encountered with the 14th century custom house at your right and there next you will watch out the Alsace Museum that is into the straight opposite direction. The next spot there on is the Maison de Pasteur. The after the St. Nicolas church on your left is one of the oldest French speaking Protestant church in Strasbourg Albert Schweitzer, the winner of the Noble Peace Prize preached about as between 1899 and 1913. The next bridge there is Pont St-Thomas, and the Protestant church of the same name is there is on a street to the right – that is the beautiful gothic building in Strasbourg. St-Louis square is there located on the left of the bridge, where a small theatre is situated in the earlier used to be Sauerkraut factory.Pont St-Martin is also learnt as washing bridge as the poor used to wash their clothes here while the rich used the cleaner water upstream.
On the tour there could be a stay at the hotel Petit France where the boat rises to the level to the pedestrian level. Next important spot after the Petit France is the Ponts Couverts. There four bridges crossing the river Ill were made to keep the gunpowder dry and not for the protection of the soldier, a strange logic was thriving there! Next to it is the Vauban dam that was constructed to flood the southern city in case of the attack from the enemy.
With the continuity the boat travels along the northern part of the city. There on the left is located the Ste-Marguerite, that at a time in past was a hospital, then converted into a barracks and until 1988, there was a prison. The executioner's tower there is on the right as you moves ahead and is notoriously is famous for as cutting the tongue for blasphemy before it was off with your head. There are many other interesting and loving places there are on the travel to Strasbourg but the places worth visiting there includes as the futuristic European Court of Human Rights as designed by Richard Rogers, the Cathedral and many more interesting spots all around.
