More Strasbourg Scenes

Next morning, June 12th, we moved to the P&R and took the bus back into town, mostly to see the great cathedral (next posts), but also to do another Michelin walking tour of the old city.

The German occupation of Strasbourg following the
Franco-Prussian war coincided pretty much with the
years of Art Nouveau, so one doesn't see much of
the beautiful architecture...but there are a few instances

La Place Broglie...the horse market in the Middle Ages, a central
square in later times, with the grand opera at the end; origin of 
the term "horse opera" some say 

The day's caryatids; not too many of these on the half-timbered
beauties

Abbatoir of yore

Canal scene

The day's video-shoot; don't know who she was nor why five
camera-persons were required

Love the curvy pink arcades

Another beautiful building

Europe's first iron bridge; so it said

We stopped for lunch as a restaurant by the adjacent Catholic and

Protestant churches; my Alsatian sausages

Vicki's schnitzel

The meal was fine, but the main interest were the
new-to-us golden ground cherries, physalis heterophylla,
served as a side nibble

Theologian/musicologist/organist/doctor/missionary/polymath
Albert Schweitzer was a native of the Alsace who did time
studying medicine and other things in Strasbourg; authored
The Quest for the Historical Jesus and Reverence for Life;
received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952

An approaching red ant threatened our moment
together, so I smashed it; certain restrictions apply in
my reverence for life

Chinese half-timbered look

The adjoining Catholic and Protestant churches; the latter was closed,
the former not so interesting

Another Art Nouveau

Galeries Lafayette; used to be the Kaufhaus des Westens (😁)

And another Nouveau

And an Art Deco; why are they so often movie houses?

Place Gutenberg; Gutenberg did considerable time in Strasbourg,
where he produced his first printing press; the rest is history, as
they say, and Gutenberg is sometimes referred to as "the man of
the millennium"; little in subsequent human history is imaginable
without him

Sic transit, Gloria; there is his statue, on Place Gutenberg,
tucked in between a hot dog stand and a merry-go-round

Last month's flavor of "Information Age"

More curvy streets

And one final monument I had to find...that of Strasbourg
favorite son Roget de L'Isle, composer of "La Marseillaise,"
which became the French national anthem, known to many
non-Francophones by way of this great movie scene (Major
Strasser and his German buddies, BTW, are singing "De
Wacht am Rhein," which rather neatly ties things together)