France's easternmost region, Alsace, is also one of its most enchanting — thanks largely to its location. Pressed up against the German border, along the Rhine, the region flip-flopped between Germany ...

Alsace is having a culinary moment—a moment that’s lasted for several hundred years. “Farm-to-table isn’t some newly coined phrase for what’s occurring now in Alsace; it’s the way it’s always been,” ...

Skip the lines in Paris and visit these picturesque towns and villages, where the crowds are fewer and the pace is slower.

Until European travel becomes fully open to Americans, here's a reminder of the fun that awaits us in Europe. Biking down a newly paved but skinny one-lane service road through lush vineyards, I ...

A part of France with a hint of Germany, this region’s forests and hills shelter beautiful cities and villages, superb vineyards and cosy restaurants and hotels Alsace runs west to east from the ...

When a wine-lover visits a wine region, it’s easy to forget there’s more to agriculture than grapes. In July, in Colmar, the absurdly picturesque town at the heart of the Alsace vineyards, Petit Jean ...

Pity the poor Nazi who dared to approach the Four-a-Chaux World War II fortress at Lembach in Alsace. Next to the steel front entrance there are a couple of neat little holes through which welcoming, ...