Obernai, the town whose Coat of Arms appears above, is the second largest town in the lower Rhine region of Alsace. The major town of the region is Strasbourg, which is 31km to the north-east.
Obernai has a population about 12,000, and clearly benefits from tourists travelling the Alsace Wine Trail.
We enter from the car (and coach) park, through the walls. There are inner and outer walls, both beautifully restored.
Buildings form a part of the inner wall.
After passing through the inner wall, we find attractive buildings and streetscapes wherever we wander.
While not really large, the churches had attractive architecture, including rose windows.
Our guide pointed out a stork’s nest on top of one building. The stork is recognised as an emblem of Alsace.
All too soon, it was time to re-join our party and head back to Strasbourg. However, I did manage to remember enough French, from my schooldays, to purchase some delicious biscuits. The hardest part of that was too choose which ones.
