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Dragons and Croissants in Strasbourg

November 27, 2006 at 10:05 AM | 0 Comments

If you're not afraid of dragons, try out the Hotel du Dragon in Strasbourg, north-east France. Strasbourg's a sweet German-influenced town near the border, and in fact the Dragon name comes not from any suspicion of haunting but a German family named Drachenfels who owned the hotel back in 1466 (yep, more than 500 years ago). Drachen means dragon, and that's the name they've stuck with since the 1600s when even Louis XIV spent a night there.

Half of the original hotel building was torn down in 1870 to make way for a school (it's still there, and the morning bell might wake you up); but some of it remains, and it's kind of a cool feeling to sleep somewhere that's been standing since 1345. Fortunately, they have kept it renovated and touched up over the centuries, and what stands today is a simple but pleasant hotel with some unmistakably French touches.

Breakfast is one of them--croissants galore and hot chocolate--and the art gallery you'll find in the dining rooms is another with oddly modern paintings and sculptures for sale featuring some kind of French style that we just can't interpret.

Possibly safer to pull your wallet out only to pay the accommodation bill and not to take home any apparent works of art.

[Photo: Love Paris]

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