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Everyone can find his favourite leisure activity in Strasbourg: open air and sporting pastimes, walking and cycling, team or individual sports, indoor or outdoor… and if you enjoy good food, you will not be disappointed by its many delicious restaurants. At night, night clubs, bars and other welcoming haunts allow you to relax and listen to music in a unique setting.
Sporting activities in Strasbourg
Strasbourg has a large number of sports facilities enabling you to take part both in the most common sports (football, swimming…) and in those which are less widespread (climbing, golf, sailing…) whether indoors or outdoors.
Swimming, canoeing, water sports, sailing, horse riding, combat sports, boules, golf, squash, tennis, fitness, aerial sports, flying, gliding, and parachuting are just some of the activities in which you can indulge freely or as part of an association or club.
List of sports associations from :
Office des Sports
de la Ville de Strasbourg
5 quai Ernest Bevin
Tel : +33 (0)3 88 31 83 83
http://www.ods67.com
To find out more about clubs and fitness centres:
The Strassbuch, a publication produced by students at the IECS Strasbourg, proposes a large range of sports:
http://www.strassbuch.com
If you enjoy walking, skiing, mountain biking, climbing, or paragliding, the Black Forest and the Vosges are the ideal locations, as they are close to Strasbourg and have a number of tourist trails (more than 10,000 kilometers of tracks signposted by the Club Vosgien) and accommodation options such as refuges and farms.
For further information on the trails (maps, guides) :
Club Vosgien
16 rue Ste Hélène
Tel : +33 (0)3 88 32 57 96
http://www.club-vosgien.com
Club Vosgien – Strasbourg Section
71 avenue des Vosges
Tel : +33 (0)3 88 35 30 76
http://www.club-vosgien-strasbourg.net
Club Alpin Français
6 bld du Président Poincaré
Tel : +33 (0)3 88 32 49 13
http://clubalpinstrasbourg.org
Strasbourg by night
You will never have time to get bored with the many opportunities to spend a night on the town. Apart from the various cultural events, Strasbourg boasts a number of celebrated restaurants, which guarantee an entertaining start to the evening, and nearly a hundred bars, night clubs, and cinemas to bring your night out to a very pleasant close.
Good food
Good food in Strasbourg comes in a number of guises, delighting the tastebuds with traditional food, the pleasures of home cooking and the savours of haute cuisine. You can find flavours typical of your country of origin or discover those of the local cuisine.
With, amongst others, cuisine from Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Portugal, Poland, the Lebanon, the Orient, America, Greece and the West Indies, you will be spoilt for choice. In the Strassbuch, you will find a selection of restaurants from all around the world.
The Strassbuch, a publication produced by students at the IECS Strasbourg, suggests a broad range of restaurants to suit your tastes:
http://www.strassbuch.com
Restaurant guides :
Each year, Gilles Pudlowski publishes the Pudlo France (Lafon) and the Pudlo Alsace (Athéo)
- Le Petit Futé Strasbourg (on sale in bookshops)
Cinemas
The cinemas in Strasbourg offer a choice of around forty screens (four of which specialise in non-French films in their original version).
Cinéma Vox
17 rue des Francs Bourgeois
Tel : +33 (0)3 88 75 50 21
UGC Ciné Cité Etoile
25 route du Rhin
Tel : +33 (0)3 88 32 34 82
Star St-Exupéry
18 rue du 22 novembre
Tél : 03 88 32 34 82
Star
27 rue du Jeu des Enfants
Tel : +33 (0)3 88 32 44 97
 Odyssée
3 rue des Francs Bourgeois
Tel : +33 (0)3 88 75 10 47
The last four cinemas show a large number of films in the original version with French subtitles.
Pathé – Brumath (multiplexe)
Zone Industrielle de Brumath
Tel : 0892 696 696
All films currently being shown:
http://cinema.dna.fr
http://cinema-strasbourg.com
To find out about local events in the media or on the Internet:
Les DNA
Local and regional pages
17 rue de la Nuée Bleue
Tél : 03 88 21 55 00
http://www.dna.fr
The Reflets DNA supplement
Wednesday edition of DNA
http://reflets.dna.fr
Le Strassbuch
A publication produced by students at the IECS Strasbourg
http://www.strassbuch.com
The cultural weekly Repères (available in town halls and cultural establishments)
Other sites :
http://www.cigogne.net
http://www.strasbourg.webcity.fr
http://www.strasbourg.com/strasbourg-by-night/index.html
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