LA PETITE FRANCE

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Blogtrotter Revival 70s & 80s has wonderful posts of some beautiful people thirty years younger and at least twenty pounds thinner,
and
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STRASBOURG - JANUARY 2009

The Pont St-Martin, near the restaurant seen on Smilebox in the last post, marks the beginning of the district known as La Petite France (Little France), where the city's millers, tanners and fishermen used to live.



"OLD & NEW - Mix of buildings at the entrance of Petite France"


"REGENT PETITE FRANCE - My favourite hotel in Strasbourg..."



"MAISON DES TANNEURS - Also known as «Gerwerstub», the Maison was built in 1572. Formerly a tannery, it became a restaurant in 1949 and was restored in 1972 for its fourth century anniversary"



"ILL RIVER CANAL - Near the Hotel Regent and the Maison des Tanneurs"



"RUE DU BAIN AUX PLANTES - Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century houses with carved woodwork"


"LA PETITE ALSACE"


"DORURE, RESTAURATION & PEINTURE"



"PONTS COUVERTS - At the far end of a series of canals are the Covered Bridges, built as part of the fourteenth-century city fortifications and still punctuated by watchtowers. Just beyond is a dam built by Vauban to protect the city from waterborne assault"



"DAM"



"ILL RIVER"


"TREE"


"BOOKS, TREE AND CHURCHES - Counter-clockwise: Au coin Litéraire, Petite France Tree, St. Thomas, St. Jean and St. Pierre le Neuf"


"PALAIS DE JUSTICE - Professional deformation"