Tourism Saint-Avold

Saint Avold is situated in the department of the Moselle. It is localized in the natural region of the Warndt and in the pool of life of the moselle-est. Saint Avold played a role of first plan in the history lorraine, wrote to the XVIIIth century the Benedictine learned D.Calmet. It sheltered in its walls of the dukes of Lorraine, kings of France and emperors of Germany. A body of beautiful built fountains in 1714 by the master mason Melchior Spinga come from Italy, helped by the Tyrolian ones, brighten the center city. Holy Avold is a city with a cultural very rich heritage. The American cemetery, the most important of Europe of the Second World War, that counts more than 10 000 graves. You can equally discover the basilica Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours and the Holy abbey church nabor, former church of the abbey.