Square, Plaza sights in Metz
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Quartier de la Gare
The solid, bourgeois buildings and broad avenues of the Quartier de la Gare, including rue Gambetta and av Foch, were constructed in the decades before WWI.
Built with the intention of Germanising the city by emphasising Metz' post-1871 status as an integral part of the Second Reich, its neo-Romanesque and neo-Renaissance buildings are made of dark-hued sandstone, granite and basalt, rather than the yellow-tan Jaumont limestone characteristic of French-built, neoclassical structures.The massive, grey-sandstone train station, completed in 1908, is decorated with Teutonic sculptures - some of them quite amusing - whose common theme is German imperial might; it could detrain…
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Quartier de l'Amphithéâtre
'The wrong side of the tracks', until recently a wasteland of abandoned hangars and depots, is undergoing a complete transformation thanks to Metz' seemingly boundless cultural ambitions (and development budget). The Quartier de l'Amphithéâtre already boasts Les Arènes (Palais Omnisports), a vast steel-and-glass venue for sports events and concerts, and the green riverside lawns of Parc de la Seille.
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