Lanterne du Bon Dieu Metz Cathedral
Moving on from Arras, we spent another night in Metz before driving onto Alsace. It was my first visit to Metz, and I was very impressed with the city. The city has a history going back 3,000 years . It sits at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand Est region. It has some wonderful old buildings, an excellent Modern art museum, and an extraordinary cathedral which contains a vast array of stained glass . This is a shot of some of the medieval stained glass, but I also took some images of the modern glasswork by Chagall and Villon.
Metz Cathedral has the third-highest nave of cathedrals in France after the cathedrals of Amiens and Beauvais. It is nicknamed la Lanterne du Bon Dieu ("the Good Lord's lantern"), on account of its displaying the largest expanse of stained glass in the world, totalling 69,920 sq ft. The stained glass windows include works by Gothic and Renaissance master glassmakers Hermann von Münster, Theobald of Lixheim, and Valentin Bousch. Later artistic styles are represented by Charles-Laurent Maréchal, Roger Bissière, Villon, and Chagall.
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Lanterne du Bon Dieu Metz Cathedral
Moving on from Arras, we spent another night in Metz before driving onto Alsace. It was my first visit to Metz, and I was very impressed with the city. The city has a history going back 3,000 years . It sits at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand Est region. It has some wonderful old buildings, an excellent Modern art museum, and an extraordinary cathedral which contains a vast array of stained glass . This is a shot of some of the medieval stained glass, but I also took some images of the modern glasswork by Chagall and Villon.
Metz Cathedral has the third-highest nave of cathedrals in France after the cathedrals of Amiens and Beauvais. It is nicknamed la Lanterne du Bon Dieu ("the Good Lord's lantern"), on account of its displaying the largest expanse of stained glass in the world, totalling 69,920 sq ft. The stained glass windows include works by Gothic and Renaissance master glassmakers Hermann von Münster, Theobald of Lixheim, and Valentin Bousch. Later artistic styles are represented by Charles-Laurent Maréchal, Roger Bissière, Villon, and Chagall.
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