Fortresses, blockhouses and other works of the famous defence line accompany the hiker. The visit of the Michelsberg, a real underground city made up of five combat blocks, the fort with frescoes and the Huberbusch casemates are the highlights of the …

Between the nascent German Nied and the Saar, the aquatic Maginot Line, built before the Second World War, whose operation has been faithfully reconstructed by volunteers, allows us to understand this ingenious system of defensive flooding: casemates, …

South of Uberherrn, in Germany, a tramway line used to take miners to the Houve mines. Initiated by the town of Sarrelouis at the end of the 19th century and modernised in 1925 to reach Creutzwald, tramway line 9 used to enable miners to get to the Houve …

The originality of this circuit is the eighteenth-century stones displaying the arms of the great landowners of the time. …

The Castel is a Gallo-Roman former promontory fort. Reference was made to it as early as 1237, and the chapel was rebuilt in the seventeenth century. Only the choir, topped with a small bell tower, remains today. It houses one of Nicolas Greff’s …

The St Maximin church was designed by one of the great post-war architects, Georges-Henri Pingusson, in the school of Le Corbusier. Finished in 1962, it was the first circular church in France and is considered a masterpiece of modern sacred art. It was …

When you open the doors of Saint-Maximin church, you'd never imagine you'd discover an organ with a thousand stories behind it. Listed as a Monument Historique, it is the result of several creations. The first organ, commissioned for Thionville, appeared …

Follow in the footsteps of Kaiser Wilhelm II who, in order to get closer to the people of Moselle during the Annexation, had several buildings constructed in Courcelles-Chaussy (the temple, the Pavilion, the Château d'Urville, etc.). Courcelles-Chaussy is …

A few kilometres from Bitche, the small village of Sturzelbronn is home to an old Cistercian abbey founded in the 12th century. Destroyed in the French Revolution, only a few vestiges remain: The statue of St Bernard de Clairvaux, founder of the abbey: …

The neo-Romanesque synagogue, built between 1848 and 1850 in the Rue du Rabbin Elie Bloch, bears witness to one of France's oldest and largest Jewish communities, which made a major contribution to the city's influence. Numerous events take place here …