Place du Marché-aux-Cochons-de-Lait
Half-timbered square once named for its livestock trade, watched over by a wooden-shoe weathervane.
This guide to Place du Marche-aux-Cochons-de-Lait in Strasbourg opens with a Holy Roman Emperor said to have dashed barefoot across this square in 1414, and the wooden clogs locals supposedly bought him on the spot. It follows the timber-framed Maison au Cochon de Lait behind you, dated to 1477 and rebuilt with a showy double gallery in 1613, and traces the square's long string of identities, a wood market, then cabbages, then live suckling pigs from 1792 onward. You'll hear how even the wrought-iron well beside you borrows its design from grander company across the city. Look up for the wooden-shoe weathervane still turning above the rooftop.
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