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Altarpieces at the Unterlinden Museum

Altarpieces at the Unterlinden Museum

The building pictured below is the Unterlinden Museum, located in Colmar, France. The Museum is housed in a 13th-century Dominican religious sisters’ convent and a 1906 former public baths building. The second picture is one I took of the ceiling. It dates back to the 16th century. Pictured above the blog title is the cloister. One of the altarpieces we saw at the Unterlinden Museum was the Bergheim Altarpiece. It was created between 1515 and 1517 for a chapel in…

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Colmar, France

Colmar, France

After leaving Bern we boarded our ship and began our cruise up the Rhine River. Our first port of call was Colmar, France. During medieval times, Colmar was an important trading town. In the 17th century it was annexed by France, but kept much of its German traditions. The city shifted between French and German control four times between 1871 and 1945 when it became a permanent part of France. Today, French is the official language but many older residents…

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Lucerne, Switzerland

Lucerne, Switzerland

While on Tauck’ Rhine, Alps and Amsterdam tour, we first explored Bern and then headed to Jungfraujoch in the Alps. Next we visited Lucerne which is the focus of this post. A highlight would be seeing the Chapel Bridge (Kapellbrücke in German) pictured below. The Chapel Bridge is a covered wooden footbridge over the Reuss River. It was named after St. Peter’s Chapel, a nearby Catholic Church. The bridge contains a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th…

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Jungfraujoch / Swiss Alps

Jungfraujoch / Swiss Alps

From Bern, we went to Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps. It was this opportunity that attracted us to this particular tour. This area has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001. We first took a bus to Lauterbrunnen where we would catch one of two trains to Jungfraujoch. These are some of the beautiful views we saw near the Lauterbrunnen train station. We were appreciative of these photo opportunities because we knew we would encounter a snowstorm at higher…

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Bern, Switzerland

Bern, Switzerland

We began our Rhine, Swiss Alps and Amsterdam Tauck tour in Bern, Switzerland. We arrived a day early and stayed in a very nice room in the Bellevue Palace. These are views from our hotel room. The first picture below is the Albert Einstein Museum. It was within walking distance of our hotel and dealt mostly with Einstein’s life and to a lesser extent some of his inventions. The second picture is the Aare River. It flows through Bern and…

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