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Sweet Narcisse ✦ Barque Colmar au fil de l’eau
Flat-bottomed river tour poling past timber houses in a quarter once condemned as a slum.
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This guide to the Sweet Narcisse boat tour through Colmar's Petite Venise looks past the pastel timber houses on the Lauch to the tanners' quarter that stood here until its trade died out in the mid-twentieth century, leaving an aging population in housing officials logged as unsanitary. It follows the nineteen sixty-eight to nineteen seventy-four restoration under Andre Malraux's heritage law, and the stripping-down process locals called plumage. Along the way it asks who Colmar's most photographed quarter really belongs to now.
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