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Larger and less strongly characterised by the German dialect than its neighbour Alsace, Lorraine is less chocolate box pretty. It’s a region better explored in dramatic sweeps than minute detail.
From the haunting solitude of the WWI battlefields to the elegantly refined beauty of Nancy, the drama of Lorraine is on a big scale. A scale that nature has choreographed with largely unspoiled countryside, rolling farmlands, the major rivers of the Moselle, the Meurthe and Meuse, all set on the luxuriantly forested stage of the Lorraine plateau.
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- Nancy’s beauty comes from two ages – including early 20th century Art Nouveau
- The squares Stanislas and Carrières are 18th century materpieces
- Lunéville’s museums are dedicated to pottery and motorcycles!
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- Garrison town Verdun where Pétain proclaimed: “They shall not pass”
- Rodin’s memorial to the slaughter where more than 600,000 perished in the ‘Great War’
- Maginot Line – France’s incredible underground defence of WWII
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- Stained glass by Chagall shines in Metz’s gothic cathedral
- More than 20 bridges span the Moselle
- Sarreguemines’s ceramics museum has a unique collection
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- Wooded Vosges is a rambler’s and rock-climber’s paradise
- Lakeside Gérardmer - popular for skiing in winter and pony trekking in summer
- Domrémy-la-Pucelle is celebrated as the birthplace of Joan of Arc
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