Next A Stop in Strasbough

Part of the 13th-century Ponts Couverts defenses, these towers lost their roofs in the 18th century but kept the old name.

At its cathedral end stands the Pharmacie du Cerf, established in 1268 and recognized as the oldest pharmacy in France.

A small carved dog on its steps recalls the preacher Geiler, who reportedly brought his dog along to sermons here.

Assassinated in Egypt in 1800, Kleber's ashes rest beneath this statue; his heart alone was sent to Les Invalides in Paris.

Ironically, the district's name may come from a hospital here for syphilis, once nicknamed the 'French disease.'

The cathedral's facade is famously asymmetric: a second south tower was planned but never built.

Designed by master architect Erwin von Steinbach, this rose window measures about 15 meters across.

Unveiled in 1840, Gutenberg holds a page reading 'Et la lumière fut'; the pedestal's reliefs depict printing's global spread.

These locks still regulate the Ill River's four channels, a system once used to power the district's tanneries and mills.

This is the third clock on this spot; the original 1354 gilded rooster is the oldest surviving automaton in the world.

Nicknamed the 'Swallow's Nest' for its wall-mounted perch, its case dates to 1385 and has a mechanical lion whose mouth opens.

This stone building, the Aubette, was an 18th-century guardhouse redesigned inside by avant-garde Dadaist artists in 1928.