
Covered Bridges and Vauban Dam
Local name: Ponts Couverts et Barrage Vauban
Here, water becomes part of the fortress—and reveals the limits of engineering calculation during a siege.
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Highlights include Covered Bridges and Vauban Dam, Maison des Tanneurs and Petite France, Palais du Rhin, Palais Rohan, Palais universitaire, Place Broglie and La Marseillaise Monument.
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Local name: Ponts Couverts et Barrage Vauban
Here, water becomes part of the fortress—and reveals the limits of engineering calculation during a siege.
Here, water becomes part of the fortress—and reveals the limits of engineering calculation during a siege.
This stop explains how craft architecture and a vanished hospital survived changes of use in different ways.
This stop will examine a postwar dispute in which a practical project nearly cost the city its imperial palace.
This stop will show the cost of moving from one court to another for a fifteen-year-old future dauphine.
The final stop will move the conversation from a border city to a hall where personal experience of war became a project for the international protection of rights.
This stop follows the path of a marching song from a performance at home to the national anthem, and the fate of the people connected with it.
Here it becomes clear why, in a border city, a war memorial refused to divide the fallen by army.
Here, the commercial risk of an avant-garde interior will be linked to its rapid disappearance and later restoration.
Here the route begins a discussion of how a political order can be carried out while preserving its main purpose.