Ribeauvillé: Hotels & Evening Entertainment

Things to do during the day

• The Grand'Rue, the main street, and the lanes around it are lined with buildings from the 15th to the 18th century and open onto squares with Renaissance fountains.¹
• Three castle ruins stand above the town: Saint-Ulrich, the oldest and most important, Girsberg and Haut-Ribeaupierre, the highest. All three are reached by a hiking path on the mountainside.^{1, 2}
• The Tour des Bouchers, the Butchers' Tower, dates from the 13th century and was rebuilt in the 18th. It is one of the defensive towers left from the medieval town walls.¹
• The Maison des Ménétriers, the house of the fiddlers, has a decorated facade dating from 1683. The 18th-century town hall keeps a collection of silver goblets given to the town by the Counts of Ribeaupierre.¹
• The Pfifferdaj, the Fiddlers' Festival, is held on the first Sunday of September. The tourist office calls it the oldest festival in Alsace; it recalls the fiddlers' brotherhood that met in Ribeauvillé from 1481 to elect its king.¹
• The tourist office also recommends a visit to Haut-Koenigsbourg castle, for a view of what a fortified castle of the Middle Ages was like.²

Evening ideas

• Casino Barrière Ribeauvillé, inside the Resort Barrière, is open from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. from Sunday to Thursday and until 4 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.^{4, 5, 9}
• The casino's programme lists concerts, comedy nights, dinner shows and dinner dances.⁶
• The Balnéo pools at the resort stay open to the public until 10 p.m. every day, with water heated to 34°C.¹⁰

Restaurants and bars

• La Brasserie, at the resort, serves cooking based on Alsatian traditions in the evening, from 7 p.m. Le Belvédère, above the Balnéo pools, serves salads, pasta and poke bowls from noon to 8.30 p.m. with a view over the vineyards.^{11, 12}
• Le Café des Sports, at the casino, serves food without a break until 11 p.m. and shows sport on its screens. An identity check applies at the door.¹³
• Ribeauvillé is on the Alsace Wine Route. Barrière suggests tasting Grands Crus in the cellars of the local winegrowers.^{1, 8}

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