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How to reach us - Strasbourg

Address - Headquarters

European Science Foundation (ESF)
1, quai Lezay-Marnésia
BP 90015
67080 Strasbourg cedex
France

Air

The nearest airports - in order of proximity - are Strasbourg, EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, and Frankfurt.

Strasbourg International Airport (approx. 18 km)

There is a shuttle bus (navette) from the airport to the city centre every 15 minutes. The bus departs from the arrival bay. The bus will bring you to the tramway at Baggersee from where you can take the tram (Line A, direction Hautepierre Maillon / Rotonde), to the centre of town - tram stop “Homme de Fer” and then change to line B or C (direction Hoenheim gare or Esplanade) to the second stop "Place de la République".

Tickets can be bought from the bus driver or at any tramway vending machine. Single journey: 4, 90 €. Return journey: 9 €. You can also take a taxi from the airport to the city centre. The taxi fare is about approximately 25 € from 07h00 to 19h00 and 32 € at night and takes approx. 20-25 minutes.

Karlsruhe-Baden airport is about 40km from Strasbourg and has regular Ryanair flights from London Stansted, Rome-Ciampino and Barcelona-Girona, amongst others.

A shuttle bus service goes between Karlsruhe-Baden airport and Place d’Etoile in Strasbourg but the times are only convenient for London flights (timetable)

Alternatively a taxi fare costs around 60 €.

EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (approx. 140 km ) There is a bus service from/to Mulhouse railway station to/from the airport. The journey takes about 30 minutes and a single journey costs 6, 10 €. For the timetable click the ’getting around icon’ on the airport’s website. From Mulhouse one can get a train to Strasbourg and vice versa. For the French Railway’s timetable click here and then follow the instructions.

Frankfurt Airport (approx. 225 km) For train connections to and from the airport to Strasbourg or Offenburg Railway Station in Germany, which is about 25 minutes from Strasbourg, click here for the German Railway’s timetable.

Rail

Strasbourg is directly connected to Paris, Lyon, south-eastern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Northern Italy and Eastern Europe.

There is also a "Rhine-metro", which operates between Strasbourg and Offenburg in Germany.

In June 2007, the TGV (high-speed train) link will be put in place, reducing the time to Paris to 2 hrs 20 mins. The TGV link will also connect with the German Inter City Express (ICE) making Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Munich, Vienna and Budapest much more accessible.

For the French and German Railway timetable's please click the icons below.

Road - How to reach us by car

Strasbourg is directly linked to Paris by the A4 motorway and the A34, A31 and A32 motorways allow direct access to Strasbourg from Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg and Bonn, via Metz and Saarbrücken.

The Strasbourg-Mulhouse route joins it to the rest of the French motorway network.

Strasbourg is fifteen minutes from the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Basel-Genoa or Milan motorway, itself linked to the entire European motorway network.

To reach the ESF follow signs for Place de la Republique.

Our Offices

The ESF is a split-site, but it takes two minutes on foot to either of the buildings from the "Place de la République". First, take the little bridge over the river and walk to the crossroads - the ESF Marnésia building is the building to your left on the corner of the 'rue des Parchemins'.

The entry is on the quay-side and you will need to report to reception and sign in as a visitor. To get to the ESF Parchemin building, you will need to turn right at the crossroads, cross the road and the entrance is through the blue/grey gate (building after the grocers). At the moment, this gate is kept locked, so individual visitors may need to report to the Marnésia building reception first.

Local Transportation - The Tram

The tramway covers the whole town since Summer 2000. Trams run from 04h30 to 00h30, with one tram every four minutes at peak hours. The nearest station to the ESF is currently ‘Place de la République, at about 2 minutes walking distance from the Foundation (click here for a circulation map of the tramway).

For more info about local transportation click here

Area Information

Region Alsace

Visit Strasbourg's official web site

http://www.strasbourg.fr/Strasbourgfr/

Other site about Strasbourg
http://www.strasbourg.com/. Interesting site, exhaustive info about the town