Quai des Bateliers
Riverside quay of leaning timber-framed houses once worked by a boatmen's guild devoted to their patron saint.
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This guide to the Quai des Bateliers in Strasbourg opens with a maritime legend, shipwrecked sailors calling out to a Bishop of Myra centuries after his death, and traces how the story landed among the barge captains who worked this stretch of the Ill. It follows their guild, meeting at a tavern called the Anchor, as it rose to dominate Strasbourg's politics between the 1300s and 1400s. Stand at the water's edge and look at the crooked, leaning houses numbered twenty-two to twenty-six, built shoulder to shoulder along the quay.
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