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The Place de la République is a square (four sides of identical lengths) surrounding a circular public garden crossed by a north-west and a south-east axis. [ 1] The area was originally occupied by a section of the city walls, which were demolished after the Franco-Prussian War. An ancient Jewish cemetery was located on grounds near to the ...
The Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame (or Frauenhausmuseum in German) is the city of Strasbourg 's museum for Upper Rhenish fine arts and decorative arts, dating from the early Middle Ages until 1681. The museum is famous for its collection of original sculptures, glass windows, architectural fragments, as well as the building plans of Strasbourg ...
Strasbourg ( UK: / ˈstræzbɜːrɡ /, [ 5] US: / ˈstrɑːsbʊərɡ, ˈstrɑːz -, - bɜːrɡ /, [ 6] French: [stʁasbuʁ] ⓘ; German: Straßburg [ˈʃtʁaːsbʊʁk] ⓘ; [ 7][ 8]) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace.
Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg ( French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or Cathédrale de Strasbourg, German: Liebfrauenmünster zu Straßburg ), also known as Strasbourg Minster ( German: Straßburger Münster ), is a Catholic cathedral in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. Although considerable parts of it are ...
Country code top-level domain. A country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.
Coordinates: 48°35′11″N 7°45′19″E. Front. Close-up of façade. The National Theatre of Strasbourg is a palace building on Strasbourg's Place de la République, now occupied by a theatre company of the same name, the National Theatre of Strasbourg ( Théâtre national de Strasbourg, TNS). The TNS was originally built to house the ...
Allons Enfants de la Patrie ( La Marseillaise ), by Alfred Marzolff. The Place Broglie ( Bröjel in Alsatian German) is one of the main squares of the city of Strasbourg in the French departement of Bas-Rhin . The square is located on the Grande Île, the ancient city center, and has an elongated rectangular shape that is some 275 metres (902 ...
At least six people are dead and seven missing after a fishing vessel carrying 27 onboard sank in the South Atlantic about 200 miles off the coast of the Falkland Islands.