Located on the banks of the River Moselle at its confluence with the River Seille on the edge of the Plateau of Lorraine, Metz is often thought of as a garden city with many islands and 470 hectares of greenery. Great for a stroll, a picnic and a trip on one of the many pedalos for hire!

History is all around. By 2AD Metz was already an important Gallo-Roman city with an amphitheatre. They called it Divodurum Mediomatricorum which unsurprisingly they later shortened to to Mettis hence the Metz we know today.

By the 3rd Century it was a Bishopric with fortifications and as a major junction it grew in size and importance over the centuries. A favourite of Charlemagne, it was made a Free City during the Middle-Ages and eventually became so wealthy and several attempts to absorb it into the Holy Roman Empire were thwarted.