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COLMAR
, a fifty-minute train ride south of Strasbourg, has sprawled unattractively on both sides of the train tracks, but the old centre remains typically and whimsically Alsatian, with crooked houses, half-timbered and painted, on crooked lanes - all extremely pretty and very touristy. Colmar's attractions don't stop at its buildings; it is also the proud possessor of one of the last and most extraordinary of all Gothic paintings - the altarpiece for St Anthony's monastery at Issenheim, painted by Mathias Grünewald.
The Town
The
pièce de résistance
of the
Musée d'Unterlinden
, housed in a former Dominican convent at 1 rue d'Unterlinden (April-Oct daily 9am-6pm; Nov-March daily except Tues 9am-noon & 2-5pm; closed public hols; 35F/¬5.34) is the
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