The royal apartments
Rooms that lodged kings and emperors, furniture in place — the full eighteenth century.
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For the general visitor: Decorative Arts first — the royal apartments are the 'palace' you came for. Add Fine Arts if paintings are your thing, or Archaeology if someone with you tires of paintings. All three only for a genuine museum glutton.
Four Rohans in succession were prince-bishops of Strasbourg in the eighteenth century — one of France's most powerful and richest families, wanting a seat fit for a court rather than a bishopric. The last was entangled in the famous Diamond Necklace Affair that helped usher in the Revolution.
The archaeology vault, yes — the look-don't-touch apartments wear them down. With kids: archaeology, then out to the river and the boat tour from the neighbouring quay.
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The Palais Rohan is Strasbourg's eighteenth-century masterpiece: built by the powerful Rohan prince-bishops on the Ill's bank right beside the cathedral, in the manner of the great Paris palaces — 'the Alsatian Versailles', it was said. Kings and emperors from Louis XV to Napoleon lodged here. Its value today is three museums on one building's ticket system: Decorative Arts on the ground floor, where the royal apartments keep their furniture and Strasbourg's famous faience; Fine Arts above, with Raphael, Goya and the school of Rembrandt; Archaeology in the cellars, with Alsace's finds from its earliest ages. The pairing of grand apartments with an archaeological vault makes the visit unusually varied for a palace — and its river façade is one of the city's finest sights from the tour boats.
Rooms that lodged kings and emperors, furniture in place — the full eighteenth century.
The famous coloured ceramics — Alsace's proudest craft.
Prehistoric and Roman Alsace beneath the palace floor.
2 Place du Château, 67000 Strasbourg