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Colorful Houses, Hunawihr, Alsace, France | Alsace and Lorraine, France (IMG_3859.jpg)

Colorful Houses, Hunawihr, Alsace, France

This wine-producing village is composed of well established wine-growers’ houses, with little narrow courtyards opening onto the street, dating mostly from the 16th-18th centuries. The decoration of the wine-growers’ houses is limited to the half-timbering, the windows frames and the gate. As for the mansions, which were generally built in the 19th century, the decoration is much more demonstrative. Nevertheless the building materials remain the same across the time : flat scale tiles , white or coloured (by an oxide) roughcast protecting a cob made up of clay and horse hair melted; oak, beech, fir beams skilfully laid.
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