L' Ancienne Douane

This guide to L'Ancienne Douane in Strasbourg opens with the 22-year gap between the night Allied bombing gutted this medieval customs house in 1944 and the day the city finally rebuilt it. It traces the building's earlier lives as a taxing customs hall from the 1350s, a wine market, and later a fish market, before following architect Robert Will's stone-for-stone reconstruction in the 1960s. Mayor Pierre Pflimlin's ribbon-cutting sits at the center of a facade that looks centuries older than it actually is.