METZ

METZ

Published on the 27/02/2025 Reading time : 3 minutes

Metz is a sustainable destination and a historic old town. Its congress center is located closed to the station, facing the famous Pompidou Center museum. We provide a wide range of venues. Concerning accomodation, Metz offers various hotels (more than 2 000 rooms) as Maison Heler (Curio Collection by Hilton) one of a kind hotel imagined by Philippe Starck, famous french designer. This amazing building located near the congres center provides 104 rooms and 2 restaurants (one on the roof top).

Congress and Event Capacity : Up to 2 500 delegates

Greater Metz is located at the centre of the 3 borders area (60 km from Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg). It is a metropolis with easy access, especially by TGV (High Speed Train) : 82 minutes from Paris Gare de l'Est and 70 minutes from Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport.
Luxembourg Findel International airport is 69 km from Metz, 50-minute drive.

Metz hosted the G7 Environment, Oceans and Energy Ministers meeting in 2019 thanks to its comitments in sustainability since several decades : easy access, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission are key objectives for the city. Moreover several venues and local MICE actors are ISO 20121 certified. Metz is a "on foot" destination, with an unity of place for your event.

The majors innovative sectors are digital technology, materials, energy and process, peri-urban farming and logistics (french biggest Amazon warehouse). Metz has a technology campus with 7 prestigious colleges, a research institute specialising in materials, metalworking and processes (IRTM2P), a global centre of excellence in optoelectronics and the Materalia competitiveness cluster.

Modernity : Internationally-famous architects and designers, including 3 winners of the Pritzker award are involved in the development of Metz. The Pompidou Metz Centre is a museum of modern art.

History : Metz is an 3 000 years old city and offers a lot of historic monuments to visit such as the 800 years old cathedral Saint Etienne.

Major events and traditionnal festivals: during the summer season, Constellations de Metz is the essential rendez-vous of digital arts. In december you can visit the famous Christmas market. And during all the year you can discover and taste our AOC wines, for an incentive or team building time.

We provide a lot of different venues for your event : different kinds of buildings, different types of moods, ...

The German language and culture have a significant place in Metz.

This Curio collection by Hilton hotel is the only one fully imagined by the famous french designer Philippe Starck. With a strong identity and innovative design : he designed a frosted glass tower 30 meters tall topped by a house in the 19th century style, a replica of the one existing in Metz.