The most photogenic area in the city: Millers, fishermen and tanners plied their trades in this district of waterways, weirs and locks crowded by black and white half-timbered colombage houses. These quaint old structures are from the 1500s and 1600s, and if you stand back and look up you can make out the opening in the roofs where animal hides were once laid out in the sun to dry. On some of the cobblestone streets like Rue du Bain aux Plantes the houses look unfeasibly top-heavy, and every few paces are traditional restaurants serving Alsatian specialities like choucroute garnie.
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