Mulhouse / Bâle
Mulhouse, designated a Ville d’Art et d’Histoire for its rich industrial past, is known as ‘the French Manchester’. It boasts exceptional museums, including the famed Cité de l'Automobile and Cité du Train. Heading south, the EuroVelo 5 route leads into the Pays de Saint-Louis, an area where three countries meet – France, Germany and Switzerland. Along the way, there are several points of interest, such as Alsace’s Petite Camargue, the Fondation Fernet-Branca and the Parc des Eaux Vives. At Huningue, the footbridge named the Passerelle des Trois Pays marks the end of your cycling adventure through Alsace. Switzerland and the lively town of Basel lie ahead !
Description
This final stage of EV5 in France takes you along a mix of very quiet roads, cycle tracks on greenways, farm tracks and town cycle paths. Follow the signs indicating EuroVelo 5. You leave the town of Mulhouse via a small road.
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Don’t miss
- Mulhouse: Ville d'Art et d'Histoire; Cité de l'Automobile; Cité du Train; Electropolis (on electricity, past and future); Musée de l'Impression sur Etoffes (on fabric printing); Zoo de Mulhouse.
- Rixheim: Musée du Papier Peint (on fine wall-paper production).
- Saint-Louis: Fondation Fernet-Branca (an historic distillery); Petite Camargue Alsacienne (a nature reserve).
- Huningue: Passerelle des Trois Pays (a footbridge marking the meeting of three countries); Parc des Eaux Vives (canoeing and rafting possible)
