City of France, capital of Bas-Rhin and the region of 258,400 h. Alasacia See Council of Europe. Bishop, a beautiful cathedral.
Strasbourg (French, Strasbourg, Strassburg German, Alsatian Strossburi pronounced) is the capital and largest city of Alsace, in eastern France. See Council of Europe, home to important institutions of the European Union (EU) and its historic center is since 1989 a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
Situated on the banks of the Ill River, where it joins the Rhine at the German border. The city has a population of 273.100 inhabitants, extending to more than 650,000 in its metropolitan Urban Community of Strasbourg covering Kehl in Germany.
The city symbolizes like no other Franco-German reconciliation that is captured in the Jardin des deux rives (Garden of the two banks) and similarly at the headquarters of the television channel Arte binational.
Many city streets are named after historical figures of the EU, as Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer, Jean Monnet and Alcide de Gasperi and cities or regions of member states and candidate as Ankara street or bridge Danube.
