The Secrets of
Strasbourg

Where France and Germany Wrote History Together

On an island in the River Ill, a city has been fought over for centuries. French and German, Catholic and Protestant, medieval and modern \u2014 Strasbourg holds all these contradictions at once.

Its pink sandstone cathedral was once the tallest building on Earth. Gutenberg invented the printing press here. Today it hosts the European Parliament \u2014 a symbol of the peace that two warring nations finally chose. Your mission: uncover its secrets, one riddle at a time.