Mulhouse, France Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Thirty-five kilometres south of Colmar, MULHOUSE is a large sprawling industrial city. It was Swiss until 1798 when, at the peak of its prosperity (based on printed cotton fabrics and allied trades), it voted to become part of France. Even now many people who live here work in Basle in Switzerland. It's also the home city of Alfred Dreyfus, the unfortunate Jewish army officer who was wrongly convicted of espionage in 1894. Not having much of an old town, it is no city for strollers, but there are four or five outstanding – and rather unusual – museums in the town and its vicinity that delve into the … more »