Tourist attraction
La Petite Venise
Pastel timber-frame houses lining a slow canal, once home to fishermen and tanners' guilds.
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About this audio guide
This guide to La Petite Venise in Colmar follows the working canal quarter behind the postcard, the Quai de la Poissonnerie, once ruled by the city's fishermen's and boatmen's guild. You'll hear the guild's strict rules on selling a catch, the color-coded houses that once announced a family's trade, and the tannery next door whose smell nobody chose to live near. It also reaches back to a fire that struck this stretch of the Lauch, and asks how much of the view in front of you actually predates it.
This audio guide was created using AI.