MetzSights

City Square sights in Metz

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    Place de la Comédie

    Bounded by one of the channels of the Moselle, this neoclassical square is home to the city's 18th-century Théâtre, France's oldest theatre still in use. During the Revolution, place de l'Égalité (as it was then known) was the site of a guillotine that lopped the heads off 63 'enemies of the people'.

    The neo-Romanesque Temple Neuf was constructed under the Germans in 1904.

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  2. B

    Place St-Louis

    On the eastern edge of the city centre, triangular place St-Louis is surrounded by medieval arcades and merchants' houses dating from the 14th to 16th centuries.

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