Well, on the last open weekend a lot of students went places but a few of us wanted to see a local religious attraction called Mount St. Odile. It is a monestary at the top of one of the mountains of the Voges. It is part of the pilgrimage trail to Santiago de Compostola.
There is a wall that was built by ancient Celts - 1000's of years ago 5 meters tall. 
St. Odile was cured of blindness by drinking from a spring at the site.
We wanted a good hike so we kept on exploring and we came across the Chateau Landsberg, an obviously old castle 'a ways' down the hill from the monestary. We enjoyed wandering around the ruins and exploring what was left of the old structure.
I thought that the negative space between these rocks was really quite interesting. We saw as we ventured down the hill into the forest at the beginning of our adventure. We saw it again at the end of our hike as we went to the warm up in the Monestary with a hot chocolate. There were two chapels full of mosaics that were gorgeous that we went through before we had our snack!!!
One of the most interesting parts of the monestary were the Stations of the Cross done in ceramic set in the rocks below the monestary on the trail down to the miraculous spring.
It was a great day of hiking in a truly beautiful part of the Alsace. : )
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