Travel Notes 52: Strasbourg. The most German city in France

Yuri Loginov’s travel notes accompanied by photographs made here and there once upon a time with amazing background classic music to remember forever. Travel Notes 52: Strasbourg. The most German city in France. #Strasbourg - the historical capital of Alsace in the east of #France. A city located on the Ile River, not far from the left (western) coast of the Rhine River, along the border between France and Germany, opposite the small German town of Kehl. Both of these cities are connected by four bridges, including the pedestrian “bridge of friendship“, which is usually guarded by the German border police on their side of the Rhine, as far as I could see, walking along the bridge one day during my stay in Strasbourg. This city, although unofficially, is considered the parliamentary capital of Europe: it is here that the Council of Europe has been sitting since 1949 and the European Parliament since 1992. Also, the permanent European Court of Human Rights has been located here since 1998. It arose in the 1st century AD as a Roman fortress Argentorat (lat. Argentoratum) and acquired its modern name in the 6th century. The German name Straßburg means “fortress by the road“. Since ancient times, the city has been influenced by two cultures and two languages: German and French, and was part of the Frankish kingdom, then the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation, from 1681 to 1870 again part of France, and again in Germany from 1870 to 1918. After the defeat of the latter in the war, he returned back to France and since then has remained there, with the exception of a short German occupation in 1940-1944. Returning back to the photos I took more than one year ago during this trip prompted me to create a new video, this time entirely in the photo slideshow format, since, alas, I did not shoot the video. But I hope that this dynamic and short musical clip, the next one from the “Travel Notes” cycle, despite the fact that, according to chronology, it was supposed to be in front of Düsseldorf under the rainbow flag, will not seem boring, but, on the contrary, will arouse genuine interest in new interesting places in Europe as it is. And now I hasten to convey to viewers short moments of this journey. Watch the previous video about France on The original photos are laid out on @yuri-loginov-107391.