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Germany Black Forest - The rally with 1000 turns

The small town of Baiersbronn in the heart of the Black Forest has become the unmissable meeting point for vintage car enthusiasts. Registrations for the next edition of this motor race in the heart of the Black Forest from September 27 to[...]

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Fastnacht Madmen and witches celebrate the Alemannic carnival

All of Germany celebrates the highlights of the carnival season. Until Shrove Tuesday at midnight, a wind of madness blows over many cities. Impossible to escape it! In the country of Baden-Württemberg, witches, gnomes, devils and other cha[...]

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Fastnacht (1) - Germany celebrates carnival

In Germany as elsewhere, there are four seasons. But also, and this is rarer, a fifth, that of the carnival! But who is not celebrated the same in the north and the south[...]

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Fastnacht (2) - Schramberg, its pretzels, its clocks and its furry cat

Schramberg, a small town in the Black Forest, is renowned for its technical museums (model trains, watchmaking, etc.). But also for his hairy cat who reigns over the emblematic figures of carnival: the "Hansel", the "Brüele" and the "Da-Bac[...]

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Fastnacht (3) - Rottweil and the Leap of Fools

Better to get up early to hope to secure a good seat before this funny "jump". In any case, the night is short, very short in our small hotel: from 5 am, the band of the guard roams the streets. And no later than 6 a.m., your innkeeper walk[...]

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Fastnacht (4) - Sigmaringen and the joys of marriage

In the shadow of the Hohenzollern castle (also seat of the government in exile of the Vichy regime), a strange custom is perpetuated for carnival, the “bräuteln”. Even Prince Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern had followed this tradition. a fe[...]

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Fastnacht (5) - Elzach and his devils with snails

Welcome to the "Schuttig", a character a bit wild. Dressed in red, wearing a tricorn adorned with 300 snail shells and three red pompoms, they hide their features behind the traditional wooden mask[...]

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Fastnacht (6) - The Mask Sculptor

Witches, wild men, demons, fantastic animals and other funny characters who stroll along the Fasnacht in the streets of Baden, bear the signature of Wolfgang Ducksch, mask sculptor[...]

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Fastnacht (7) - Villingen-Schwenningen The aristocratic fools

Here, the Fastnacht is more elegant than elsewhere. This is because the main character, the “Narro”, was born under the reign of Duke Albrecht of Austria (1326) who granted the good bourgeois the right to celebrate carnival as their traditi[...]

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Steyr, the Autichian city of blacksmiths and the Christmas crib

We fell in love with this pretty little town in Upper Austria, not far from Linz[...]

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Christmas of yesteryear in Alsace

Far from the hustle and bustle of the Christmas markets, a village-museum invites you to rediscover the meaning and spirit of this beautiful celebration. Welcome to the Ecomuseum of Alsace, for an authentic, creative and natural Christmas[...]

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100 years later, trying to understand history

It is one of the emblematic sites of Alsace: the “Hartmannswillerkopf” or “Vieil Armand”. During the 14-18 war, German and French troops fought furious battles there. The opening of a "Franco-German historial of the Great War" allows a bett[...]

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