France鈥檚 favourite village boasts old-style houses
Hunspach in Alsace has been voted France鈥檚 favourite village for 2020.
The news was announced yesterday during the popular TV show Le Village Pr茅f茅r茅 des Fran莽ais, hosted by historian St茅phane Bern.
A typical village in Alsace
Hunspach is well-known for its timber-framed houses and was competing with 13 other French villages.
Tourism officer and municipal deputy of the village, Sylvie Heiby, told Connexion: 鈥淲e did not expect to win. It was already an honour to be in the list of villages in competition but winning comes as a surprise. We are very happy and we will host new people visiting as we have always done.鈥�
More places to visit in the region
This title will make the little village of 700 residents more famous but Mrs Heiby also hopes that new visitors coming will enjoy the region.
She said: 鈥淭he village is beautiful with its traditional houses and geraniums but there is also a lot to see around, a lot of places to go to walk and there are beautiful sites to visit in the region.鈥�
Hunspach was competing with Pierrefonds (Hauts-de-France), Giverny (Normandy), Batz-sur-Mer (Pays de la Loire), Chablis (Bourgogne-Franche-Comt茅), Carg猫se (Corse), Montpeyroux (Auvergne-Rh么ne-Alpes), Pont-Aven (Bretagne), Tr么o (Centre-Val de Loire), Montfort-l'Amaury (脦le-de-France), Les Anses-d'Arlet (Martinique), Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges (Occitanie) and M茅nerbes (Provence-Alpes-C么te-d鈥橝zur).
Last year the village of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue in Normandy was elected, and Cassel in Hauts-de-France was chosen in 2018.
