A French fairy tale town, it's like stepping into Howl's Moving Castle
✨A French fairy tale town, it's like stepping into Howl's Moving Castle✨
🪄When you see the town in this picture, do you feel a sense of déjà vu? If you are familiar with Hayao Miyazaki's work 'Howl's Moving Castle', then this scene will not be unfamiliar to you😉. Remember when Sophie was walking alone on the path, being teased by two soldiers, and Howl descended from the sky like a hero🕺, with blond hair and blue eyes, wearing a cloak, appearing beside Sophie. He took Sophie dancing in the air above the town, lightly stepping over the rooftops, overlooking the entire town, everything was dreamily beautiful💕.
👧The most impressive to me was the scene where they danced in the air🎈, those rows of pointed timber-framed houses, scattered in an orderly fashion, looking down from above, both romantic and spectacular🎆. And this scene is not a figment of Grandpa Miyazaki's imagination, its prototype is the town of Colmar on the Alsace Wine Route in France! Compare the pictures, isn't it almost identical😲! Those timber-framed houses are just like two peas in a pod! Here, it seems that you can see Howl carrying Sophie flying over the rooftops🕊️!
🏡Over the past millennium, the Alsace region has changed hands between France and Germany several times, its history is an epic of German-French contradictions and integration📚. Speaking of Alsace, does it feel familiar to you🤔? Let's read the text below together and see if it can evoke fragments of your memory📃:
'After the grammar lesson, we started the handwriting class📝. That day, Mr. Hamel gave us new copybooks, all with beautiful round script: 'France' 'Alsace' 'France' 'Alsace'. These copybooks hung on the iron rods of our desks, like many small national flags fluttering in the classroom🚩. Everyone was so focused, the classroom was unbelievably quiet🎵!'
'The Last Lesson' cast a melancholic and solemn hue over Alsace😢. But in fact, before the 17th century, the Alsace region belonged to the Holy Roman Empire (the predecessor of Germany), and people mainly spoke German📄. After the famous Thirty Years' War in Europe, Alsace came under French rule. And in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, France was defeated, and Alsace belonged to Prussia, until Germany was defeated in World War II, Alsace returned to the arms of France💪, and formed the current border between the two countries along the Rhine River🗺️.
📖If cities can also be mixed-race, then Colmar is undoubtedly a beautiful town with German-French mixed blood🌸. Carefully calculated, this place belonged to Germany for a longer time than it belonged to France. This also explains why Colmar's architectural style is full of Germanic charm🏰, those timber-framed houses and the magnificent Gothic churches with pointed spires all bear strong Germanic marks🎨, as well as many street names with German suffixes and the dialect mixed with German and French, all have a reasonable explanation🤝.
✨Colmar also has many attractions worth visiting🎡, such as the Little Venice area, where the waterways crisscross, and the colorful timber-framed houses are reflected in the water, picturesque🖼️; there is also the Unterlinden Museum, which displays the rich history and culture of the Alsace region📜; and the Saint Martin Church, whose towering spires and exquisite carvings are awe-inspiring👏. Come to Colmar and experience the unique charm of this fairy tale town💖!
A very fairy tale town, the environment is very beautiful, there are many tourists. The old streets and houses tell their stories quietly. Walking in the town has a feeling of living in a fairy tale. The store recruits on both sides have their own characteristics, and it feels very interesting to just look at the store recruits on both sides. No wonder a lot of film and television works and variety shows are here to get the scene.
It is a very interesting place, beautiful, good atmosphere, comfortable travel. If you have a chance, you should visit here once. It is a very beautiful city. There are unique ancient houses. Well preserved
The area of the old town is small, it is enough to hang around for a long time. In addition to the wooden house building that is similar to the fairy tale, it is a variety of small details on the windows. There are clusters of flowers on each window sill, and the house painted into colorful colors is very cute.
lovely old town with lots to see and do and plenty of eateries, near to train as well
I like the French town very much. I came to the town of Colmar in the summer. This time is the best time for travel, so there are many people. Another reason may be the hype on the Internet, which leads to a strong commercial atmosphere here, but overall I still like it. Due to historical reasons, the architecture here is biased towards German style, many houses are decorated with a variety of colorful flowers, the French handmade products are very special, buy some souvenirs here is also very good, jewelry, leather bags, are unique design, quite beautiful.
In the summer of August, I went to Colmar. Although she was really beautiful, there were too many people, and the experience was very poor. There is no time to stroll in the old city, just rushing all the way. In the impression, the small Venetian sea of people, the river is full of people. The open-air seats of the bar along the street are full of people, and I am just a passerby. The postcards here are particularly beautiful and the souvenirs are special.