Taxi Bar-le-Duc → Metz

The Bar-le-Duc — Metz journey crosses the heart of historic Lorraine, linking the discreet Meuse prefecture to the dazzling Moselle capital. Bar-le-Duc, city of the goose-quill de-seeded redcurrant jam — a unique delicacy whose artisanal production dates back to the 14th century — is also a remarkable Renaissance town. Its upper town preserves exceptional stone mansions and the church of Saint-Étienne housing the Transi by Ligier Richier, a strikingly realistic 16th-century funerary sculpture of a standing skeleton holding its own heart. Bar-le-Duc is also intimately linked to the Great War: the Voie sacrée (Sacred Way) departed from here, the sole supply road to the Verdun front in 1916. Metz, this route's destination, is a millennia-old city at the confluence of the Moselle and Seille, whose Saint-Étienne Cathedral has 6,500 m² of stained glass — the world's largest in any church — including works by Marc Chagall. The Centre Pompidou-Metz, inaugurated in 2010 in Shigeru Ban's spectacular building, has placed Metz on the international contemporary art map.