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Five postcards from Badenweiler.(Travel)
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IF IT'S TRUE that all the great spa towns, those temples of propriety from Carlsbad to Vichy, are really vantage points for observing Europe as an allegory--this was the whim of the aristocratic memoirist Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne (1735-1814)--then Badenweiler has everything going for it. Tucked in the lap of a valley on the southern slopes of the Black Forest between Freiburg and the great bend of the Rhine at Basle, a hundred kilometres south of Baden-Baden, the most famous spa of all, Badenweiler looks down onto the silt fiats and water meadows, the Ried of Upper Alsace.
This is where the cities of the Decapolis once thrived under the Holy ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Five postcards from Badenweiler.(Travel)