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Article: Five postcards from Badenweiler.(Travel)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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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.
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