From the Basilica of Mont Sainte-Odile (Mount St-Odile), the view extends over the entire Alsace plain with the Black Forest on one side and the Vosges mountains on the other. A place of worship for the Celts, the mountain was called Altitona (“the high mountain”). At the end of the 7th century, the mountain was the property of the Duke of Alsace Adalric, father to the future St. Odile. He had a noble residence built there, the castle of Hohenbourg. In 680, Odile transformed the castle into an abbey, of which she was the abbess until her death. Behind the basilica, a 4-metre-high statue of St Odile has blessed Alsace since 1924.