Cave Historique des Hospices de Strasbourg
Vaulted medieval cellar beneath a working hospital, home to the world's oldest barrel-aged wine.
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This guide to the Cave Historique des Hospices de Strasbourg opens with a wager: in 1456 Zurich and Strasbourg swore that either city could reach the other with help within a single day, a promise nobody tested until 1576, when Strasbourg was mid-festival hosting one of the great shooting tournaments of the age. You'll hear how Zurich decided to answer the old pact in style, loading a boat with hot porridge and sending it racing down the Limmat, the Aar and the Rhine toward the city. The guide traces what waited in this vaulted cellar, first dug beneath the hospital in 1395, including a barrel already more than a century old by then.
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