Drive Across the German Border to Strasbourg France | 4K 60fps Drive Tour With Relaxing Piano Music

Road trip.Drive Across the German Border to Strasbourg France
4K 60fps Drive Tour With Relaxing Piano Music
Date: May 2022
''Strasbourg is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the European Parliament. Located at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace, it is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin department.
In 2019, the city proper had 287,228 inhabitants and both the Eurométropole de Strasbourg (Greater Strasbourg) and the Arrondissement of Strasbourg had 505,272 inhabitants. Strasbourg's metropolitan area had a population of 790,087 in 2017, making it the ninth-largest metro area in France and home to 13% of the Grand Est region's inhabitants. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau had a population of 958,421 inhabitants. Strasbourg is one of the de facto four main capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Luxembourg and Frankfurt), as it is the seat of several European institutions, such as the European Parliament, the Eurocorps and the European Ombudsman of the European Union. An organization separate from the European Union, the Council of Europe (with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines most commonly known in French as "Pharmacopée Européenne", and its European Audiovisual Observatory) is also located in the city.
Together with Basel (Bank for International Settlements), Geneva (United Nations), The Hague (International Court of Justice) and New York City (United Nations world headquarters), Strasbourg is among the few cities in the world that is not a state capital that hosts international organisations of the first order.The city is the seat of many non-European international institutions such as the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine and the International Institute of Human Rights. It is the second city in France in terms of international congress and symposia, after Paris. Strasbourg's historic city centre, the Grande Île (Grand Island), was classified a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988, with the newer "Neustadt" being added to the site in 2017.Strasbourg is immersed in Franco-German culture and although violently disputed throughout history, has been a cultural bridge between France and Germany for centuries, especially through the University of Strasbourg, currently the second-largest in France, and the coexistence of Catholic and Protestant culture. It is also home to the largest Islamic place of worship in France, the Strasbourg Grand Mosque.
Economically, Strasbourg is an important centre of manufacturing and engineering, as well as a hub of road, rail, and river transportation. The port of Strasbourg is the second-largest on the Rhine after Duisburg in Germany, and the second-largest river port in France after Paris.
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Strasbourg somehow has the feeling of a german city dunno why

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Due to its intricate history modern Alsace, with its capital Strasboug, is where the French and Germanic cultures meet and mix. If you have an interest in architecture, walk in Strasbourg, you can guess among classical buildings which ones were built by the French, which ones were built by the German. Alsace was originally a Germanic land with a Germanic culture, a part of the Holy Germanic Empire, until the French conquerred Strasbourg in 1681. Since then the province has alternated five times between France and Germany. French from 1681 till 1871, from 1918 till1940, and finally since 1944. German again from 1871 till1918, and from 1940 till1944. Though I'm not Alsatian I have a special feeling for this province, which I've often visited. Besides the beauty of the area I like to think, as a modern day EU citizen, that this region which in the past it was a source of hatred and wars between France and Germany, is nowadays often cited as a token of peace and friendship between the two nations.