Eurométropole de Strasbourg 33 communes of the métropole are, with number of inhabitants on 1 January 2014: Eurométropole de Strasbourg Eurométropole de Strasbourg is the "métropole", an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Strasbourg. It is located in the Bas-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, northeastern France. It was created in January 2015, replacing the previous "Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg", and covers that part of the Strasbourg metropolitan area that lies in France. Its population was 491,516 in 2014, of which 280,680 in Strasbourg proper. The Urban Community of Strasbourg (French: "Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg"), also known by its French initials
European institutions in Strasbourg freedom, security and justice (eu-LISA) has his operational HQ in Strasbourg. Finally, Strasbourg also hosts the association Apollonia (created in 1998), which defines itself as "a platform of cooperation in the area of the visual arts between European countries and, more specifically, with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the countries along the Baltic Sea and in the South Caucasus." The association was created on the basis of work conducted since 1994 by the Council of Europe within the framework of the Program of European Artistic Exchanges. Twenty institutions have their sole, or one of their main,