Tourist attractions Amnéville

The cathedral, built of yellow Jeumont stone, is a remarkable Gothic edifice, steeped in history, legends and piety. The nave is one of the highest in France but it is particularly renowned for its windows, which occupy a surface area of 6 500sq m, h..

The zoo's 2 000 residents were all born in captivity and are free to roam about vast enclosures in which the natural habitat of each species has been recreated. You go from the African plain , populated by elephants, giraffes and white rhinoceroses,..

Housed in a former Carmelite convent, the museum's basements contain the vestiges of ancient baths and its archeology section covers the city's brilliant Gallo-Roman and Merovingian periods. The architecture and lifestyle collections reflect everyday..

The museum is located at Sainte Neige, the "hillside mine", whose galleries opened out onto the hillside. Back on ground level, there is an enormous building offering visitors information on where iron comes from and how it comes to form de..

This fine esplanade was laid out on the site of a citadel. From the terrace, there is a fine view of Mont Saint-Quentin and its fort, and one of the arms of the River Moselle.

Beside and above the River Seille stand the vestiges of the old fortifications. Two round towers crowned with slate pepperpot style roofs on the city side and two large crenellated towers on the open side, linked by a gallery.

A square lacking in symmetry. It is lined with houses with buttresses and arcades, built along the traces of the old rampart which serves as their foundations. It gives the square a certain charm and attraction.

The oldest church in France dates from 390. It was originally a civil basilica, transformed into a chapel in around 615. In turn a Benedictine chapel and a military depot in the 15C, it is a significant part of Metz's heritage. Its splendid chancel ..

The cantilevered chancel is decorated with stained-glass windows designed by Jean Cocteau. Two basket-handle arches link the chapel of the Gournays (Metz aldermen) with the right arm of the transept.

Upon entering the house where the "Father of Europe" (1886-1963) spent the last years of his life, you cannot help fancying that his presence lives on here. A renovation carried out in 2004 has pieced together a loyal reconstruction of his ..

These are colossal buildings, able to shelter 1 200 men. 2 entrance blocks and 17 fighting blocks, an enormous "anti-blast" door, central station with lofty arches, miles of galleries and a monumental transformer room. Figures help re-live ..

In the 1920s, the lessons drawn from the First World War prompted France to protect her borders with an impenetrable wall on her eastern flank. Originally intended to run from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, the project was only realised in Alsac..

For many years a working furnace, the U4 blast furnace is now open to the public. A visit will acquaint you with the equipment used in the steel industry in the interwar period. The U4 is one of six blast furnaces which existed at this plant built ..

This immense and sturdy classical church contains large organs with cases swarming with chock-full of decorative details and a beautiful high altar with a baldaquin.

Still called " tour au Puits " (Peetz Turm), this 11C and 12C tower presents a complex fourteen-sided architecture. The Public Museum is situated here.

Here there is a rich Gallo-Roman section and an important collection of lapidaries from the end of the Middle Ages and old 16C and 18C chimney firebacks. Recollection of sieges suffered by this town. It must have been really coveted since it was unde..

This support work to the fortified sector of Thionville benefited from technical innovations which were then extended to other installations of the Maginot Line: electrical machinery, telephone transmissions, etc. Documents concerning the fort are of..

Le Corbusier and André Wogenscky selected the wooded site of Briey-la-Forêt to realise their project of combining architecture and nature. In this location, the development was intended to house around 2 000 people and included 60 individual flats as..

A Gothic chancel, two elegant bell-towers forming a contrast with the 18C façade, an imitation of the Paris church of St Gervais.

This 18C theatre is the oldest in France. It is framed with historic buildings, the Pavillon de la Douane (Customs pavilion) and the Pavillon Saint-Marcel and stands opposite the former Hôtel des Intendants, rebuilt after a fire in 1803, which is now..