gare de metz-ville

Metz is ideally situated, less than three hours by rail from Paris, just over an hour to Luxembourg or Germany. The train station retains a certain old world charm (think of the idyllic European stations from the late 19th century) while remaining logical and well organized.The tourist information staff is multilingual, but the train information staff seemed to mainly know French (one spoke a little bit of English). Those who don't know English in addition to their native French often know German. Regardless, they are friendly and willing to help!There are cafes and shops in the station as well as places to wait for trains if you are leaving Metz, and the station is only about a 20 minute walk from the centre-ville. There are plenty of nice places to stay, eat, and shop around the station, as well as a bike rental shop. Visit Metz!

Architecture is beautiful and worth the walk to visit. Inside has been more modernized and has cafe to relax before venturing out again.

You can find a lot of newspapers and magazines here! I was very happy buying my first PARIS MATCH magazine in France!

nice ,clean , stuff are helpfull and you can access to so many important destination for a traveler .

Clean, relatively new station. Easy to navigate your way around. Walk through station to Pompidou Centre. Ate in the station restaurant twice!!

We arrived at this terminal on Bastille day. The building seemed out of place. It was later on that I realised that it was built by the Germans when they still owned this province. There was an explosion by the entrance but everyone went by their business. A cherry bomb! Like everything French, the trains were 40 minutes late! Boy their trains are ugly compared to the Swiss.

Very nice building. Outside and inside. Worth taking the time by a nice day to go and discover the various sculpture

More like a gothic castle than a station, this is one impressive building, all medieval knights and dragons. Worth seeing in the daytime and also when lit up at night. The restaurant Le Grand Comptoir is in part of the station building and is well worth a visit. There is also a very beautiful bookshop at the rear of the newspaper store.

I had to catch a connecting train for Paris. It was my first station and city in France. I found people and information helpful. Unlike the perception, everybody spoke in English to me.

I loved the mix of massiveness and the Arabic touches of the arches, the information office has to be one of most exclusive offices in the world!

An imposing structure built during the German occupation 1870-1918 with Teutonic solidity but also a very charming bookstore

This is a beautiful neoclassicistic building that was designed by German architects after the Francoprussian war according to a well informed taxi driver. The station features an impressive water tower (probably built to refill the steam locomotives). I personally enjoyed the well stocked bookshop there to buy lots of French books.

And is on the way to the Pompidou! Very interesting and lovely architecture inside. Cool on a hot day!

1. No luggage storage at the train station2. I'd take the train to Metz just to see this station. Not sure it is worth it to drive or walk to, but if you are coming here via train, take a moment to stop and enjoy the architecture. 3. credit goes to Metz guide book: The station building is architecturally reminiscent of the shape of a church in the departure hall area, with a clock tower rising 40m in height (said to be designed by Kaiser Wilhelm himself); on the other hand, the arrivals hall and restaurant echo the form of an imperial palace. The purpose of this is to represent the religious and temporal powers of the Holy Roman emperors. The statue of the Knight Roland at the angle of the clock tower represents Imperial protection over Metz. In the great hallway a stained glass window depicts the Emperor Charlemagne sitting on his throne. Kaiser Wilhelm appreciated his travels to Metz and the imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine, which was administered directly by the imperial government in Berlin. So at the railway station can be seen the apartments he used during his visits to the city; today they have been transformed into offices for the SNCF Railway Company.

On the edge of the German quarter of Metz, the appearance was unfortunately spoilt by on going renovation works on the forecourt, but it should look good when finished. A very large practical solid building but never the less impressive. Inside it has been modernised and does not have the cathedral type magic of say ' Antwerp Station ' but well worth a visit. A monument to sadder times when it was built to facilitate the movement of the German Army before the Great war