Metz is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand Est region. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany and Luxembourg, the city forms a central place of the European Greater Region and the SaarLorLux euroregion.
Clockwise from top: overview of city centre 1(with Cathedral of Saint Stephen), Imperial Quarter, Temple Neuf, Germans' Gate, Opéra-Théâtre (place de la Comédie)
Henry II of France entering Metz in 1552, putting an end to the Republic of Metz.
Paul Verlaine by Edmond Aman-Jean, 1892, oil on canvas, Golden Courtyard museums Metz with its magnificent open countries, prolific undulating rivers, wooded hillsides, vineyards of fire; cathedral all in volute, where the wind sings as a flute, and responding to it via the Mutte: this big voice of the good Lord!— Paul Verlaine, Ode to Metz, Invectives, 1896
The city hall on the Place d'Armes.
The Moselle is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A small part of Belgium is in its basin as it includes the Sauer and the Our.
Typical landscape of Moselle vineyards near Schweich
The Moselle at Pont-à-Mousson, France
The Moselle near Cochem, Germany
Beilstein on the Moselle
