Grand Est Walking through trenches and past machine gun posts in the Vosges During the First World War, the top of the Linge, a 987-metre-high hump in the Vosges, was the scene of a bloody trench war that claimed the lives of 17,000 French and German soldiers in just a few months.
Grand Est Collapsed WOI observation tower At the end of the First World War, an observation tower was built on top of Tête de Raves in the French Vosges.
Grand Est First World War relics on the battlefield of Tête des Faux Tête des Faux is a 1208-meter-high mountain in the French Vosges, and its large stature also explains the strategic role it played during the First World War.
Six blast furnaces you can visit today In the early nineteenth century, the industrial revolution swept across continental Europe and one steelworks after another rose from the ground. Europe had hundreds of blast furnaces, but since the mid-twentieth century, Europe's steel industry has been slowly going downhill.