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Le parcours de la Boucle de la Moselle est ponctué par un riche patrimoine historique : des édifices religieux tels que la Cathédrale de Toul, la Place Stanislas à Nancy classée au patrimoine mondial par l’Unesco, la cité médiévale de Liverdun ou encore des villages lorrains typiques.

FLEVILLE DEVANT NANCY
Just outside Nancy, stands a unique testimony to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Lorraine. This exceptional...
NANCY
The Basilica of Saint Epvre was built in the 19th century by Prosper Morey, Prix de Rome architect, in the neo-Gothic...
NANCY
It borders Place Charles III, opposite the covered market. It was built in the 18th century to the plans of a covered...
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Designed by architects Giovanni Betto, Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Germain Boffrand, it was built in the early 18th...
GONDREVILLE
Gondreville is an old Lorraine's medieval village, whose historical origins date back to Gallo-Roman times, is situated...
TOUL
In the heart of the old town of Toul where there are beautiful architectural testimonies from the 15th to the 18th...
NANCY
This square originally called Saint Stanislas Square is part of the architectural unity commissioned by Stanislas from...
VILLEY SAINT ETIENNE
Witness to a new generation of fortifications, the defensive organization of the Villey-Saint-Etienne forest represents...
ART SUR MEURTHE
The Charterhouse of Bosserville in Art-sur-Meurthe was founded by duke Charles IV in 1666 along the river Meurthe. It...
MALZEVILLE
The Lorraine painter Charles Cournault (1815-1904) was trained by Delacroix. His house in Malzéville near Nancy of...
NANCY
Place de la Carrière, or Carriere Square, appeared in the middle of the sixteenth century. Its name comes from its...
NANCY
Louis Majorelle—a cabinetmaker, metalworker, industrialist, and leading artist of the École de Nancy—was the first to...
NANCY
Place Stanislas is considered as one of the loveliest royal squares in Europe. It is an architectural jewel in Nancy’s...
NANCY
A modest chaple and sanctuary lay until 1738  on the site of the graves of the Burgundians who died at the Battle of...
NANCY
Built at the end of the 15th century, following the victory of Duke René II of Lorraine over Charles Le Téméraire, Duke...
TOUL
This residence contains vestiges of Toul's historical and architectural heritage: the former Hôpital du Saint Esprit...
CHAMPIGNEULLES
A cursed place with a predestined name, it was chosen by the Nazi occupiers as the culmination of their sinister...
LANEUVEVILLE DEVANT NANCY
In the heart of the Parc de Montaigu, a stone's throw from the Musée du Féru des Sciences, come and visit this elegant...
LIVERDUN
Once the summer residence of the Bishops of Toul, overlooking a loop of the Moselle River, the Ville Haute of Liverdun...
CHAMPIGNEULLES
At the beginning of the 18th century, Christophe LE PRUD'HOMME, Count of Fontenoy, had a large château built along the...
LIVERDUN
This understated former collegiate church with its Romanesque architecture was built in the late 12th century, on the...
TOUL
Built from 1221 and completed around 1500, with its Romanesque plan and Gothic construction, the Cathédrale Saint...
TOUL
Smaller than the cathedral, the Collégiale Saint-Gengoult nevertheless houses a veritable architectural treasure: its...
TOUL
Toul is the only town in Lorraine to retain a city wall. It has developed all forms of fortifications: from the ancient...
VILLEY LE SEC
Built not a long times after the 1870 war, the Fort from Villey-le-Sec is included in the defence system «...
VILLEY SAINT ETIENNE
As an old Maison Forte (big house) at the end of the Middle-ages (XVth century), the Grosse Maison (big house) is a...
TOUL
Set in the old Maison Dieu where the stone room still exists(XIIth century) extensive and pedagogical Museum which...
TOUL
City hall. Old Episcopal palace of Toul built between the XVIIth century, it was burnt in December 1939 and rebuilt at...
NEUVES MAISONS
In Neuves-Maisons, the mine museum Val de Fer is the memory of the miners and is situated in a clearing of 5 hectares...
FROUARD
At the northern end of the Boucle de la Moselle, the Éperon Battery brings together in one place a large number of...