Tourism
The Greater Region contains many interesting tourist destinations. In general, they can be reached in day trips from any starting point within the Greater Region. The following are the major tourist destinations in the area:
- Sarreguemines (France), with the famous Faïencerie (earthenware factory)
- Saverne (France), with the Saint-Louis-Arzviller inclined plane
- Bitche (France), one of Vauban’s garrison towns with a large citadel; one of the largest underground artillery works of the Maginot Line (Fort Simserhof), can be visited
- Metz (France), capital of the Lorraine region with the high Gothic Metz Cathedral (with windows of Hermann von Münster and Marc Chagall) and the new branch of the Centre Pompidou-Metz
- Nancy (France), Art Nouveau city with Place Stanislas (UNESCO World Heritage Sites)
- Saarbrücken, capital of the German state of Saarland, with the baroque Ludwigskirche, which is the burial location of Elisabeth of Lorraine
- Völklingen (Saarland), the Völklingen Ironworks (UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site)
- Trier (Rhineland-Palatinate), ancient Roman city with many Roman monuments, the most famous of which is Porta Nigra
- Mainz (capital of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate), founded by the Romans as a military post; has the Mainz Cathedral and Gutenberg Museum
- Luxembourg (capital of Luxembourg), with medieval fortifications and Grand Ducal Palace
- Liège (Belgium) cultural center of the Wallonia with the palace of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and Baroque Town Hall
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“In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)