# Roots Earth in Strasbourg: audio stories about 42 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/strasbourg Published: 16 September 2026 Roots Earth has audio stories about 42 places in Strasbourg, France, in Europe. The Strasbourg stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Strasbourg, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people. The 42 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026. ## The 42 places in Strasbourg with audio stories In the order the app shows them. 1. Strasbourg Cathedral 2. Petite France 3. Grande Île 4. Ponts Couverts 5. Barrage Vauban 6. Kammerzell House 7. Palais Rohan 8. Place Kléber 9. Strasbourg Astronomical Clock 10. Seat of the European Parliament (Louise Weiss Building) 11. Palace of Europe 12. European Court of Human Rights 13. Place de la République 14. Palais du Rhin 15. Neustadt (Imperial German Quarter) 16. St Thomas' Church 17. Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame 18. Alsatian Museum 19. Strasbourg Historical Museum 20. Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 21. Tomi Ungerer Museum 22. Opéra National du Rhin 23. St. Paul's Church 24. Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church 25. National and University Library of Strasbourg 26. Aubette 27. Place Broglie 28. Strasbourg-Ville Railway Station 29. Christkindelsmärik (Strasbourg Christmas Market) 30. Sainte-Madeleine Church (Krutenau) 31. Botanical Garden of the University of Strasbourg 32. Palais Universitaire 33. Zoological Museum of Strasbourg 34. Old Saint Peter's Church 35. Saint Aurelia's Church 36. Strasbourg Grand Mosque 37. Neudorf 38. Kronenbourg Brewery (Cronenbourg) 39. Schiltigheim (Brewers' Town) 40. Stade de la Meinau 41. Rhénus Sport 42. Château de Pourtalès ## Is there an audio guide for Strasbourg Cathedral? Yes. Strasbourg Cathedral has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. It is place 1 of the 42 Strasbourg places in the app, at 48.58167, 7.75083. Every one of the other 41 places in the list above has the same two stories. Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself. ## How to use Roots Earth in Strasbourg Open Roots Earth and choose Strasbourg. The city has its own map of places with all 42 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order. You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. --- **In full** All 42 places in Strasbourg, in the app's order, with their coordinates. ## All 42 places in Strasbourg, with coordinates Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print. ### 1. Strasbourg Cathedral - Coordinates: 48.58167, 7.75083 - In one line: Gothic masterpiece in pink Vosges sandstone, begun on Romanesque foundations in 1015 and crowned in 1439 by a 142-metre spire that made it the world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874. Its lace-like facade dominates the Grande Île. ### 2. Petite France - Coordinates: 48.58083, 7.74056 - In one line: A former quarter of tanners, millers and fishermen where half-timbered houses from the 16th and 17th centuries lean over the channels of the River Ill. Once poor and pungent, it is now the most photographed corner of Strasbourg's UNESCO-listed centre. ### 3. Grande Île - Coordinates: 48.583, 7.748 - In one line: The oval island at the heart of Strasbourg, ringed by the River Ill and the Canal du Faux-Rempart. In 1988 UNESCO listed the entire historic centre, from the cathedral to Petite France, as a World Heritage Site. ### 4. Ponts Couverts - Coordinates: 48.57989, 7.73953 - In one line: Three medieval bridges guarded by four square towers, built between 1230 and 1250 as Strasbourg's river defence. Their wooden roofs vanished in 1784, but the name, the covered bridges, has never let go. ### 5. Barrage Vauban - Coordinates: 48.57944, 7.73806 - In one line: A fortified weir of pink sandstone built across the River Ill between 1686 and 1690 by engineer Jacques Tarade, following Vauban's plans. Its thirteen arches could flood the city's southern approaches; its rooftop terrace now frames Strasbourg's finest view. ### 6. Kammerzell House - Coordinates: 48.58194, 7.74972 - In one line: Strasbourg's most celebrated merchant house, with a stone ground floor from 1467 and richly carved timber upper storeys added in 1589. Frescoed inside by Léo Schnug, it has welcomed restaurant guests beside the cathedral since 1905. ### 7. Palais Rohan - Coordinates: 48.581, 7.752 - In one line: An eighteenth-century palace built from 1732 to 1742 for Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan by royal architect Robert de Cotte. Marie Antoinette and Napoleon both stayed here; today it houses three of Strasbourg's major museums. ### 8. Place Kléber - Coordinates: 48.58333, 7.74611 - In one line: Strasbourg's great central square, renamed in 1840 for the Revolutionary general Jean-Baptiste Kléber, whose remains lie in a vault beneath his statue. The eighteenth-century Aubette frames its north side, and the city's giant Christmas tree rises here each winter. ### 9. Strasbourg Astronomical Clock - Coordinates: 48.58194, 7.75139 - In one line: A towering masterpiece of precision mechanics inside Strasbourg Cathedral, whose current mechanism dates from 1842. Its dials follow the planets, eclipses and a perpetual calendar, and at half past twelve each day carved apostles parade before Christ. ### 10. Seat of the European Parliament (Louise Weiss Building) - Coordinates: 48.5975, 7.7694 - In one line: The glass home of the European Parliament's plenary sessions, completed in 1999 where the river Ill meets the Marne-Rhine canal. Its 60-meter tower, deliberately left looking unfinished, contains the largest debating chamber of any European institution. ### 11. Palace of Europe - Coordinates: 48.595, 7.77194 - In one line: Henry Bernard's monumental headquarters of the Council of Europe, inaugurated in 1977 beside the Orangerie park. The nine-storey square block in red, silver and brown hosted the European Parliament's plenary sessions until 1999 and remains Europe's house of human rights and democracy. ### 12. European Court of Human Rights - Coordinates: 48.59667, 7.77417 - In one line: Richard Rogers' glass courthouse beside the Ill, completed in 1994 for the European Court of Human Rights, where judges from 46 nations hear citizens' cases against their own governments. Its twin cylindrical chambers embody justice conducted in the open. ### 13. Place de la République - Coordinates: 48.58726, 7.75397 - In one line: A vast circular garden ringed by the monumental stone facades of imperial Germany's Neustadt, laid out from 1880 as Kaiserplatz. At its centre stands a 1936 memorial to a mother mourning two sons who died fighting on opposite sides. ### 14. Palais du Rhin - Coordinates: 48.58778, 7.7525 - In one line: The former Kaiserpalast, built between 1884 and 1889 by Hermann Eggert as the German emperor's residence in annexed Strasbourg. Its Neo-Renaissance bulk and great dome dominate Place de la République; since 1920 it has housed the commission governing Rhine navigation. ### 15. Neustadt (Imperial German Quarter) - Coordinates: 48.5872, 7.7538 - In one line: The planned district built between 1871 and 1918, when imperial Germany set out to make Strasbourg a showcase capital. Its grand avenues, monumental public buildings and Art Nouveau villas joined the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2017. ### 16. St Thomas' Church - Coordinates: 48.57971, 7.74528 - In one line: Strasbourg's principal Lutheran church, a five-naved Gothic hall begun in 1196 on a site of worship since the 6th century. It shelters the spectacular marble mausoleum of Marshal Maurice de Saxe and a Silbermann organ once played by Mozart. ### 17. Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame - Coordinates: 48.5809, 7.75138 - In one line: Museum of medieval and Renaissance art from Strasbourg and the Upper Rhine, housed in the historic headquarters of the cathedral workshop. Original cathedral sculptures, some of Europe's oldest stained glass and masterworks by regional painters fill its Gothic rooms. ### 18. Alsatian Museum - Coordinates: 48.57917, 7.75056 - In one line: Museum of everyday Alsatian life, opened in 1907 inside Renaissance timber-framed houses on the Ill riverbank. Reconstructed farmhouse rooms, painted furniture, costumes, toys and religious objects evoke the region's rural world before the industrial age. ### 19. Strasbourg Historical Museum - Coordinates: 48.58, 7.75083 - In one line: The museum of Strasbourg's own story, housed in the city's former Renaissance slaughterhouse of 1588 beside the Ill. ### 20. Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - Coordinates: 48.57944, 7.73611 - In one line: Adrien Fainsilber's glass-fronted museum on the Ill, opened in 1998, gathers art from 1870 to the present. Works by Monet, Kandinsky, Picasso and Strasbourg-born Jean Arp share the building with a major Gustave Doré collection. ### 21. Tomi Ungerer Museum - Coordinates: 48.58569, 7.75514 - In one line: Museum devoted to Strasbourg-born illustrator Tomi Ungerer, opened in 2007 in the Villa Greiner. Around eleven thousand drawings trace his beloved children's books, biting satire and advertising work, alongside an international collection of illustration. ### 22. Opéra National du Rhin - Coordinates: 48.5858, 7.75206 - In one line: Strasbourg's neoclassical opera house has closed the view down Place Broglie since 1821, six stone muses crowning its Ionic colonnade. Today it is the main stage of the Opéra national du Rhin, a company shared with Mulhouse and Colmar. ### 23. St. Paul's Church - Coordinates: 48.58639, 7.75972 - In one line: A Gothic Revival church raised between 1892 and 1897 for the Lutheran soldiers of the German imperial garrison. Its twin spires climb 76 metres above the point where the Ill river divides, one of Strasbourg's most photographed silhouettes. ### 24. Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church - Coordinates: 48.58556, 7.74639 - In one line: Fifteen centuries of worship layer this Protestant church: a seventh-century burial crypt, an eleventh-century cloister, a Gothic nave covered in medieval frescoes, a rood screen now unique in Alsace, and a Silbermann organ from 1780. ### 25. National and University Library of Strasbourg - Coordinates: 48.58722, 7.75611 - In one line: France's second largest library, founded on 9 August 1871 after the siege of 1870 destroyed Strasbourg's old collections. Its neo-Renaissance palace of 1895 on Place de la République now holds more than three million volumes. ### 26. Aubette - Coordinates: 48.584, 7.7453 - In one line: An eighteenth-century guardhouse by Jacques-François Blondel lining Place Kléber in pink sandstone, reborn in 1928 with radical abstract interiors by Theo van Doesburg, Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, celebrated as the Sistine Chapel of abstract art. ### 27. Place Broglie - Coordinates: 48.58509, 7.75042 - In one line: An elongated square on the Grande Île, a horse market until Marshal de Broglie lined it with trees in 1740. The opera house, the city hall, the birthplace of the Marseillaise and Strasbourg's Christmas market all share its 275 metres. ### 28. Strasbourg-Ville Railway Station - Coordinates: 48.585, 7.73444 - In one line: Strasbourg's main railway station wraps an 1883 stone building by Johann Eduard Jacobsthal inside a sweeping glass shell added in 2007. More than 24 million passengers a year make it one of the busiest stations in France. ### 29. Christkindelsmärik (Strasbourg Christmas Market) - Coordinates: 48.5851, 7.7504 - In one line: One of Europe's oldest Christmas markets, held since 1570 across the squares of Strasbourg's old town. For a month each winter, timber chalets, mulled wine and a giant spruce at Place Kléber turn the city into the capital of Christmas. ### 30. Sainte-Madeleine Church (Krutenau) - Coordinates: 48.58, 7.75472 - In one line: A Catholic parish church in the Krutenau quarter, rebuilt in 1907 by Fritz Beblo after fire destroyed its 15th-century predecessor. A Gothic choir, medieval cloister remains and a Silbermann organ survive within its Art Nouveau frame. ### 31. Botanical Garden of the University of Strasbourg - Coordinates: 48.58361, 7.76667 - In one line: The University of Strasbourg's botanical garden, heir to a 1619 foundation that makes it the second oldest in France. Its 3. 5 hectares in the Neustadt hold roughly 6,000 plant species, historic greenhouses and an arboretum beside the observatory. ### 32. Palais Universitaire - Coordinates: 48.5848, 7.7625 - In one line: The monumental Neo-Renaissance seat of Strasbourg's university, built between 1879 and 1884 by Otto Warth and inaugurated by Kaiser Wilhelm the First. Its colonnaded grand hall and statue-lined facade anchor the imperial axis of the Neustadt district. ### 33. Zoological Museum of Strasbourg - Coordinates: 48.58292, 7.76486 - In one line: Strasbourg's natural history museum, grown from the 18th-century cabinet of naturalist Johann Hermann and housed since 1893 in a university building on boulevard de la Victoire. Reopened in 2025 after renovation, it draws on about 1. 2 million specimens. ### 34. Old Saint Peter's Church - Coordinates: 48.58278, 7.74 - In one line: A double church at the head of Grand'Rue, Lutheran and Catholic under one roof since Louis the Fourteenth divided it in 1683. First recorded in 1130, it shelters celebrated Gothic panel paintings of the Passion from 1485. ### 35. Saint Aurelia's Church - Coordinates: 48.58139, 7.73333 - In one line: A Lutheran church near the station quarter, first recorded in 801 and rebuilt in Baroque style in 1765. Reformer Martin Bucer preached here for the gardeners' guild, and its tower holds Strasbourg's oldest bell, cast in 1410. ### 36. Strasbourg Grand Mosque - Coordinates: 48.57306, 7.73722 - In one line: A broad-domed mosque beside the Ill river at Heyritz, designed by Italian architect Paolo Portoghesi and inaugurated in 2012 after years of debate. It holds approximately twelve hundred worshippers and anchors Muslim life in Strasbourg. ### 37. Neudorf - Coordinates: 48.56715, 7.76051 - In one line: Strasbourg's lively southern faubourg, grown from flood-prone meadows into the city's most populous quarter after 1871. Market mornings on the Place du Marché, corner bakeries and rattling trams give Neudorf a village feel locals fiercely defend. ### 38. Kronenbourg Brewery (Cronenbourg) - Coordinates: 48.5906, 7.7193 - In one line: The Strasbourg district that gave its name to France's most famous lager. Geronimus Hatt founded his brewery at Place du Corbeau in 1664, and the firm's 1850 move to Cronenbourg's higher ground turned a neighbourhood into a global brand. ### 39. Schiltigheim (Brewers' Town) - Coordinates: 48.6078, 7.75 - In one line: Strasbourg's largest suburb and the historic brewing town of Alsace, first recorded in 845. Generations of great breweries shaped its skyline of malthouses and chimneys, and Schiltigheim still throws its beer festival every August. ### 40. Stade de la Meinau - Coordinates: 48.56, 7.755 - In one line: Home ground of Racing Club de Strasbourg since 1914 and rebuilt for the 1984 European Championship. The Meinau has hosted a legendary World Cup match, a European final, a papal Mass and a century of Alsatian football passion. ### 41. Rhénus Sport - Coordinates: 48.60028, 7.76472 - In one line: Strasbourg's main indoor arena near the European quarter, opened in 1974 and renamed Rhénus Sport in 2001. Around 6,200 spectators pack it for SIG Strasbourg basketball, and it has hosted European finals, Davis Cup ties and a presidential town hall. ### 42. Château de Pourtalès - Coordinates: 48.60833, 7.8 - In one line: An eighteenth-century manor turned aristocratic château at the edge of the Robertsau forest, famed for Countess Mélanie de Pourtalès's glittering salon that drew Liszt and Napoleon the Third. ## Roots Earth in short Roots Earth has audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people. - No account - Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection - Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app). ## More from Roots Earth - [Europe in the Roots Earth catalogue](https://rootsearth.com/cities#europe): every city in Europe with its number of places and its languages. - [What Roots Earth is](https://rootsearth.com/app): the app in one page, how it works and what is in it. - [Questions travellers ask](https://rootsearth.com/faq): the cities, the languages, the account, listening without a connection. - [The 7 languages](https://rootsearth.com/languages): the seven languages with their codes and how many cities each one covers. - [Paris](https://rootsearth.com/cities/paris): 57 places in France with audio stories. - [Lyon](https://rootsearth.com/cities/lyon): 45 places in France with audio stories. - [Bordeaux](https://rootsearth.com/cities/bordeaux): 42 places in France with audio stories. - [Avignon](https://rootsearth.com/cities/avignon): 40 places in France with audio stories. - [Marseille](https://rootsearth.com/cities/marseille): 58 places in France with audio stories. - [Cannes](https://rootsearth.com/cities/cannes): 34 places in France with audio stories. - [Nice](https://rootsearth.com/cities/nice): 56 places in France with audio stories. 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