Pictures from Metz, France--Saturday, May 6

The Dom, or Cathedral, in Metz is shown here. It is well-known because it is the second largest cathedral in France and also has the largest stain windows. Each of the windows within the church tell a story and you can tell from which era, they are from. From example, there is a window filled with mostly the color yellow, and our guide said that it was made during the Renaissance because that is when the color first became so popular for the windows.



This is a good example of the French archiecture with the yellow coloring...most of the buildings actually had this same tint. This is a theatre building near the Moselle River. (It took a while to build, the tour guide said, because the first architect made a mistake by placing a column in direct view of the stage...)



The cathedral was simply amazing. We have nothing really to compare it too in the U.S. For me, it is unbelievable to think about how long it took to build the cathedrals here in Europe (a couple hundred years), all the planning involved, and especially since everything within the church has a meaning of some kind. Simply amazing...it astounds me each time I walk into a church such as this. And the ceilings are so high! (When we were here, there was beautiful choir music being played...I assumed it was from a recording until I saw an actual choir up high belting out for the tourists!)



This is the Moselle River (same river that flows by my dorm)...this is the protestant church that Kaiser Wilhelm II had built (when Metz was a part of Germany) because he thought it looked more like German architecture. I couldn't get over how many swans there were here...




This is also the Moselle River shown here...and just some random houses.