France
The Alps & the East
Mont Blanc, the Jura, Burgundy's slope of vineyards and Alsace's timbered villages.
Destinations
Chamonix
A valley town under the highest mountain in western Europe, where alpinism was invented.
Beaune
The wine capital of Burgundy, inside its own walls, on the most valuable agricultural land on earth.
Colmar & the Alsace wine road
Half-timbered, geranium-hung, and German four times in a century — the food and the wine still say so.
Annecy
A canal town on the cleanest large lake in Europe, with the Alps standing straight up behind it.
Strasbourg
A cathedral of pink sandstone over a half-timbered island, and the European Parliament twenty minutes away.
Places to see
Everything recorded across The Alps & the East, in one list.
Aiguille du Midi
3,842 metres in twenty minutes by cable car, with Mont Blanc across the glacier.
Mer de Glace
France's largest glacier, reached by rack railway, with the steps down signed by the year the ice reached them.
Hôtel-Dieu
A 15th-century charity hospital under a glazed tile roof, with the wards left as they were.
Musée Unterlinden
The Isenheim Altarpiece, which stops people mid-sentence, in a Dominican convent.
Lake Annecy
The cleanest large lake in Europe, swimmable from public beaches, with the Alps standing behind it.
Strasbourg Cathedral
Pink sandstone, a single spire, and an astronomical clock that performs at half past twelve.
La Petite France
Tanners' houses on canals with drying lofts in the roofs, on an island in the Ill.
Things to do
Down to the Mer de Glace
The steps to the ice are signed with the year the glacier reached each level; the descent is a chronology as much as a walk.
Swim in Lake Annecy
Fed by mountain springs and cleaned up by a 1960s sewer scheme that is now the textbook example; you can see the bottom at four metres.
Journeys through The Alps & the East
Accommodation & restaurants
EuropeDoor lists neither, yet. Both are business listings rather than editorial entries: they need an operator who claims them, a verification tier and a way to keep prices current, and all three are blocked on the same thing as everything else commercial here. How listings will work · what is built and what is blocked.
Publishing a scraped hotel list would be quick and would be the first unverified thing on this site. That is the trade being refused.
The record
What this atlas holds about The Alps & the East. The counts are derived from the region's own destinations and move when it does; the seasons and the daily cost belong to France and are repeated here rather than looked up.
- Destinations
- 5
- Places recorded
- 7
- Experiences
- 2
- A full pass
- about 10 nights
- Best months
- June, July, August, September
- Typical day
- €85–210 per person
Food, events and practicalities are on the country page
They belong to France rather than to The Alps & the East, and repeating them on every region page is how two copies of a fact start disagreeing. France →