Showing posts with label Eguisheim Pope Alsace Alsatian cro-magnon skull. Show all posts
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Thursday, 29 November 2007

Eguisheim, Haut-Rhin, France

Pope Leo IX was born here in 1002, he was Pope from 1049-1054.

Finds from palaeolithic times include a Cro-magnon skull.
These finds are in a Colmar museum

Eguisheim is also on the Alsatian Wine road.