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Bibliothèque des Dominicains
Rebuilt Gothic cloister of a former convent, now a public library holding rare medieval manuscripts.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Bibliothèque des Dominicains in Colmar turns on a disaster most visitors never notice: a fire that once gutted its Gothic cloister. It follows the friar who rebuilt it, the Revolution that emptied the convent of monks but not of books, and the string of unlikely tenants — a grain hall, a barracks, a teacher's school — that came after. Stand in the cloister itself before stepping inside to hear it.
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