Car Hire in Strasbourg, France
Strasbourg owes its name - "the city of the roads" – to its success to its position around the west bank of the Rhine, along the great natural transport arteries of Europe. The city's medieval commercial pre-eminence was destroyed by too close an involvement in the religious struggles of the 16th and 17th centuries, but restored with the city's absorption into France in 1681. Along with the rest of Alsace, Strasbourg suffered annexation by Germany from 1871 to the end of World War I and again from 1940 to 1944.
In these days, old animosities have been submerged within the camaraderie of the European Union, of which, as the seat of the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights as well as European Parliament, Strasbourg is considered among the capitals. Prosperous, exquisite and modern, with an orderliness that is Germanic other than Latin, the city is large enough - along with a population of more than a quarter of a million people - to incorporate a metropolitan air without being overwhelming. It has among the most attractive cathedrals in France and one of the oldest and most active universities: this is the one city in eastern France that is most certainly worth an exceptional detour.
It isn't nearly impossible to discover your way around Strasbourg on foot, as the city centre is concentrated over a small island encircled by the River Ill. The tourist office will provide you with a map.
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