Coffee shop
Au Croissant Doré
Pink Art Nouveau tea room behind a facade once carved with serpents for a nineteen-oh-four pharmacy.
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This guide to Au Croissant Doré in Colmar starts with a pink Art Nouveau shopfront on the Rue des Marchands and the pharmacist who covered it in snakes in nineteen oh four. It traces the building back further, to a medieval shoemakers' guild house and a sixteenth century poet's singing school, long before the pastry shop existed. You will hear who architect Hugo Voigt built for, and why medicine's oldest symbol still coils over this doorway. Look up at the gable before stepping in for a kougelhopf.
This audio guide was created using AI.