Historic Little Venice (La Petite Venise) at Colmar, Alsace, Grand Est, France, blends spectacular timber-framed houses and hotels with waterside restaurants along the canalised River Lauch, which is busy in the tourist season with flat-bottomed boats carrying visitors on guided tours.
Colmar, Alsace, Grand Est, France: tourists can go on guided floating tours of La Petite Venise or Little Venice, with its waterside restaurants and colourful timber-framed houses and hotels lining the canalised River Lauch. They travel in flat-bottomed boats of a type once used by the market gardeners and wine producers who, from medieval times, began to colonise the Krutenau quarter, stretching to the city’s semi-rural suburbs.
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Location: Colmar, Alsace, Grand Est, France.
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