Selestat Attractions

Sélestat (pop. 17,514) lies on the river Ill, roughly on the border between Upper and Lower Alsace. In the eighth century it was a Carolingian stronghold, and between 1217 and 1648 it was a free imperial city, a member of the league of 10 Alsatian cities from 1354. In the 15th and 16th centuries it was an important center of early humanism, with its "Latin school" (grammar school) and its Literary Society.