L' Ancienne Douane
Reconstructed medieval customs hall with gabled roofs, now home to a riverside Alsatian restaurant.
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This guide to L'Ancienne Douane in Strasbourg opens in the summer of 1951, with cars parked among scorched medieval walls on the site of the old customs house. It goes back to the bombing of August 1944 and the years when the city could not decide what the plot was for, with a petrol station among the ideas. You'll meet Robert Will, the chief architect who refused to let it go, and Mayor Pierre Pflimlin. Best heard standing on the riverbank, facing the building.
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