The Bugatti Royales
Two of six ever made — the throne of all car-making.
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Go for your eyes and the story: the lamp-lit hall of gleaming bodies is pure spectacle, and the ruined brothers' madness is told through the exhibit. Two hours will do and you will leave pleased. The car lover, meanwhile, will need dragging out.
The spectacle impresses even non-readers, there are children's cars, an interactive section and seasonal running shows. It is big — pace it to their ages.
Train is easier: 20 minutes then a short tram or fifteen on foot. Driving takes 35 with big free parking — better for continuing to the train museum or for loaded families.
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The Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse is the largest car museum on earth: over four hundred cars in a vast old textile hall, its heart a Bugatti collection with no equal anywhere — including two of the six Bugatti Royales ever made, the most opulent machines ever set on wheels. The collection's story is a legend itself: the Schlumpf brothers, textile industrialists, secretly poured the factories' fortune into buying every rare Bugatti on earth, until striking workers bankrupted the mills and discovered the treasure hidden in the halls — France seized it as a national museum. From steam carriages of 1878 to Ferraris and modern racers, along aisles lit by Parisian street lamps. For car lovers an obligatory pilgrimage; for everyone else, a spectacle and a story worth the short train ride from Colmar.
Two of six ever made — the throne of all car-making.
A factory fortune secretly spent on the most beautiful madness — exposed by its workers.
Endless aisles under Parisian street lamps — a spectacle in itself.
Ferraris and track cars across the decades for a fast-paced finish.
17 Rue Clemenceau, 68100 Mulhouse