European Cup Race Walking Team Manual - European Athletics

1.2 City of Metz
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METZ ETZ 2009
2009
Metz is a city located between Paris and Strasbourg in the region of the Lorraine, chief town of the
Department of Moselle.
Metz, a city open to ...
• urban ecology, a policy it has been implementing without respite now for some thirty years,
in order to build a city for People to live in,
• its heritage, which it is constantly and tirelessly maintaining and restoring, offering its
inhabitants and visitors architectural surroundings of the finest quality which also represent a
voyage through the ages,
• its economic environment, encouraging the setting up of new activities, a source of new
jobs for all and particularly the young,
• the New Information and Communication Technologies, which it has made its speciality,
developing since 1984 a Technopole entirely dedicated to those technologies, with 200
companies providing some 4,000 jobs.
• a dynamic cultural life, centred on a number of high-calibre institutions, the Arsenal, the
Opera-Theatre, the Philharmonie de Lorraine, the Museums of the Cour d'Or covering all the
art forms to the satisfaction of audiences from all walks of life,
• finally, a Metz open to its European destiny, which it is building day after day with its
immediate neighbours Luxembourg and Germany.
In short, a city that is simply open to life itself
Area: 41,94 km²
Population (2006): 124 435 inhabitants, density: 2 967 persons per km²
Climate in Metz: The average maximum temperature for July is 18,4 o C and the
minimum average is 1,5 o C.
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