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Marché Couvert Colmar
Nineteenth-century stone and cast-iron market hall built for barges, later repurposed as a car park.
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This guide to Colmar's Marché Couvert traces the material story of the nineteenth-century covered market hall, designed by architect Louis-Michel Boltz in stone, brick, glass and cast iron. It follows the building's odd double life, built for barges unloading straight off the Lauch river and later filled with a very different kind of traffic. Along the way it stops at the small bronze vintner fountain carved by Auguste Bartholdi in the southwest corner.
This audio guide was created using AI.