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The Marche Couvert is Colmar's covered market, designed in 1865 by the architect Louis Michel Boltz, who also built the town's municipal theatre. Its warm brick and sandstone shell hangs on a modern cast iron frame, a proud piece of nineteenth century engineering dressed up with decorative arches. The hall was deliberately built over the Lauch so that market gardeners could deliver produce by flat bottomed boat straight through a water gate, and fresh fish arrived the same way. After years of other uses the building was restored to its original purpose in 2010, and today around twenty traders fill it with the smells and colours of Alsace, from Munster cheese and kugelhopf to Riesling and the day's catch.
Fatti principali
- 1865 year — When the covered market hall was built over an arm of the river Lauch
- 2010 year — The year the hall was restored to its original market function
- 20 merchants — About this many traders sell produce and Alsatian specialities here today
📍 Rue des Écoles 13, 68000, Colmar