Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Montigny-lès-Metz, France
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7.5 km
101 m
Explore Montigny-lès-Metz in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Individual Sights in Montigny-lès-MetzSight 1: Église Saint-Joseph
The Saint-Joseph church is a building of worship of the Catholic church built in Montigny-lès-Metz, today in France, during the period of attachment to the German Empire. It has the statutes of parish church and diocesan sanctuary.
Sight 2: Château de Courcelles
The Château de Courcelles is a castle located in Montigny-lès-Metz, in the Moselle department.
Sight 3: Jardin Botanique
The Jardin botanique de Metz, also known as the Jardin botanique de la Ville de Metz, is a 4.4-hectare (11-acre) botanical garden located at 27 ter, rue du Pont-à-Mousson, Montigny-lès-Metz, Moselle, Grand Est, France. It is open daily; admission is free.
Sight 4: Palais du Gouverneur
The Governor's Palace, formerly known as das General-Kommando, is a residence built in Metz between 1902 and 1905 to serve as a pied-à-terre for Kaiser Wilhelm II. It is located in Square Giraud in the south-west of the Metz-Centre district, but remains historically linked to the imperial district further east. It has been listed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments since 1975.
Sight 5: Église Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains
The church of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains is an ancient religious building, whose construction dates back to the end of the fourth century. Located in Metz in Lorraine, the former civil basilica is one of the oldest buildings of this type in France to have been converted into a church in the High Middle Ages.
Sight 6: Chapelle des Templiers
The Chapel of the Knights Templar, the only vestige of a Templar commandery founded in the 12th century, is located in the Arsenal district of Metz.
Sight 7: Magasin aux Vivres
The food store is a former military building in the citadel of Metz built for the storage of food. The building now serves as a luxury hotel and gourmet restaurant.
Sight 8: Porte Serpenoise
The Porte Serpenoise is a city gate located at the corner of Avenue Robert Schuman and Rue du Général Gaston-Dupuis in the Metz-Centre district. It remains the symbolic witness associated with several historical events of the city of Metz, of which it marked the southern limit from the third century when the Roman rampart was built, until the beginning of the twentieth century when the wall was destroyed.
Sight 9: Tour Camoufle
The Camoufle Tower is a vestige of the old medieval walls of Metz in Moselle. It is one of the few towers of the medieval wall to have been preserved.
Sight 10: Église Saint-Martin
The Church of Saint-Martin is one of the oldest Catholic churches and parishes in Metz. It is located in the Metz-Centre district, 25 rue des Huiliers. The patron saint is Bishop Martin of Tours. Its bell tower rings from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sight 11: Hôtel de Heu
The Hôtel de Heu is a private mansion in the city of Metz. Located at 19 rue de la Fontaine, it was built at the end of the fifteenth century by and for La Maison de Heu, a patrician family, part of the paraiges. It is classified as a historical monument.
Sight 12: Hospice Saint-Nicolas
The Hospice Saint-Nicolas is the oldest hospital in Metz. Attested as early as the eleventh century, the current buildings date from the thirteenth century to the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the twentieth century, part of the building was used as an apprenticeship examination centre. It closed in 1986. Part of its old buildings housed an agency of the Pôle emploi (ANPE) until 2009.
Sight 13: Chapelle de la Miséricorde
The Chapelle de la Miséricorde is a former Catholic building of worship located on rue de la Chèvre in Metz in the Metz-Centre district opposite the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption church.
Sight 14: Hôtel de Gournay
The Hôtel de Gournay, located rue du Grand Cerf in the Metz-Centre district, is one of the historic buildings in the city of Metz.
Sight 15: Hôtel de Gournay-Burtaigne
The Hôtel de Burtaigne is a patrician residence in Metz, dating from the Renaissance, built in the last years of the Metz Republic by a family member of the paraiges, the Gournays. It has been classified as a Historic Monument since 2006.
Sight 16: Église Saint-Maximin
The Saint-Maximin church is a Catholic church located near the Lutheran temple in the old town district of Metz in Moselle. It is placed under the term of bishop Maximin de Trier, who died in 347.
Sight 17: Église Saint-Étienne-le-Dépenné
The Church of Saint-Étienne-le-Dépenné is a Roman Catholic church located on Rue Gaudrée in Metz, near the Church of Saint-Maximin.
Sight 18: Chapelle Saint-Charles-Borromée
The Chapel of Saint-Charles-Borromeo, better known as the Chapel of the Major Seminary, is a Catholic chapel included in the complex of the Major Seminary of Saint-Augustin-Schoeffler in Metz. Built in 1907, during the German annexation, it is the only building in the city of Metz to have a dome and a dome.
Sight 19: Centre Pompidou-Metz
The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, France. It is a branch of Pompidou arts centre of Paris, and features semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions from the large collection of the French National Museum of Modern Art, the largest European collection of 20th and 21st century arts. The museum is the largest temporary exhibition space outside Paris in France with 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft) divided between 3 galleries, a theatre, and an auditorium.
Sight 20: Gare de Metz
Metz-Ville station is the main railway station serving the city of Metz, capital of Lorraine, France. Sometimes spoken of as the Station Palace as it displays the apartments of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, Metz station has been registered as a Historic Monument since 15 January 1975. This designation gives legal protection to the station's facade, the roof, the departure hall, the honorary lounge, and the former station restaurant with its interior decorations.
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