Barr Travel Guide

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      Restaurant row
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      Flowers in all the windows
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  • Fountain in the city square
      Fountain in the city square
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      Storks are painted on houses
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Take a walk in a charming wine village

Take a walk in a charming wine village, Barr

 Beausoleil Says:  Each wine village is charming and they are all amazingly different. It's fun to forget visiting museums and wineries and just walk through the little towns wandering the streets.You will see colorful half-timbered houses and most of the year flowers filling boxes at all the... 

Museum of Faïencerie

Museum of  Faïencerie, Barr

 traveloturc Says:  same place of the museum of cristal 

Cristal Museum

Cristal Museum, Barr

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Folies of Marco

Folies of Marco, Barr

 traveloturc Says:  The " Folie Marco's ", an ancient hotel with its frontages and roofs, its interior staircase and its pavilions of angle of style Louis XV, now a museum of Alsatian middle class furniture from the 17th to the 19th century, from Renaissance to Empire and Restoration style. 

Town Hall ( Hotel de Ville)

Town Hall ( Hotel de Ville), Barr

 traveloturc Says:  On Town Hall square, the building of the Town Hall dating from the 17th century with its richly decorated frontages, its roofs and its loggia, a double staircase and wooden galleries.(1640) 

Hotels  

Hotel Le Manoir

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Restaurants  

Cafe of Barr: Just in the center

Cafe of Barr: Just in the center, Barr

 traveloturc Says:  Don't forget to take a break for a good coffee or a cup of wine in this lovely cafe with a superb view of the town hall... 

Hotel-Restaurant Le Brochet: Very German cooking with great desserts!

Hotel-Restaurant Le Brochet: Very German cooking with great desserts!, Barr

 Beausoleil Says:  It's a family run restaurant, wam and cozy inside . . . or you can eat outside at an umbrella table. There are lots of locals here. The cooking is definitely more German than French . . . hearty German fare!The tart of the day is displayed as you walk in and it's hard to eat... 

Local Customs  

local festivities

local festivities, Barr

 traveloturc Says:  Market every Saturday. May fair on the 1st Saturday of May. Local fair preceding Sunday and following Sunday of July 14th , Bastille day. Wine Fair on July 15th . The 1st Sunday of October celebration of the grape harvests. Fair of Saint Martin's on the Saturday following... 

Off The Beaten Path  

Castles around

Castles around, Barr

 traveloturc Says:  The castles of Landsberg and Andlau stand high above the town 

Favorites  

Kirchberg de Barr

Kirchberg de Barr, Barr

 traveloturc Says:  Situated on the northern outskirts of the town of Barr, the Kirchberg extends over 40,63 ha of the Vosges foothills to the east of the Champ-du-Feu massif, at an elevation ranging from 215 to 315 metres, with a beautiful southeast exposure. Kirchberg Grand Cru wines reveal... 

Cafe

Cafe, Barr

 Lalique Says:   On this pretty little square, which is formed by the intersection of two streets, we found a very cute cafe to have a cup of coffee. What attracted us was a window decorated with numerous different hand-made cakes.... mmmmm..... yummm! :))) So the choice was made! But the... 

Main square

Main square, Barr

 Lalique Says:  This was the Main square (as we named it :))), where we stopped and dropped our car (a part of it can be seen on the pic ;))) in order to be more flexible and free to explore the town. By the way, on this very square was a nice little shop with local crafts, it was run by a... 

Wine yards

Wine yards, Barr

 Lalique Says:  Through some of the streets a wanderer can notice wine hills..... Now I woder, if ther is a winery on the town???? 

Wander....

Wander...., Barr

 Lalique Says:  Just have a walk thru this dolly town, small wood decorated houses colored in fresh pastel shades, narrow streets, cosy windows with so dear decorations of birds and flowers, enjoy the tranquility and breathe of history in a small provincial town, where things change soooo... 

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Barr on the Wine Route in Alsace

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 Barr is a great little village to use as a base while exploring the Alsatian wine country. As you can see, the village is charming. There are stores for picnic supplies and souvenirs and they also... 

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Wine barr

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 Barr is said to have been an old imperial seigniory. The devil would have destroyed its castle in 1295. The castle was captured by the " Armagnac " in 1444. During the religious wars, in 1592 the... 

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Off the beaten track...

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 The whole town might be considered as off the beaten place, but as off the beaten place it is worth your visit! We had a couple of hours to wander thru it, we didn't have any map or any precise route... 

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