Every morning, Nicolas Turon pays tribute to his department with a funny, tender and knowing text, in the form of a declaration of love for the Moselle. He chooses an emblem belonging to history or current events and treats it in an offbeat way.
Moselle enclave in Alsatian country, Bitcherland is a land of legend and mystery… Friends of Metz and the Moselle furrow, take your car and drive up to the sign indicating “Hanau Forest Route”. You then realize that we will have left the capital for a good hour and a half already… but that you will still be in Moselle – perhaps even in its heart. Around here, the houses and nature catch bright colors, we go there frankly with the variegated on the facades, and with its red earth full of iron, the gray blue of the sky and the ponds, and its charcoal and chlorophyll trees, the forest suddenly looks like a fairytale landscape. Clear and bold colors, which reveal the character of the inhabitants… This forest is impressive, with its enormous rocks, its magical forests and its castles growing on edges like giant incisors. Among the most impressive in the area, the Waldek, which seems to be in unstable balance on its rocky outcrop. Oh, hardly a ruin! But it is in its depths that the legend hides. Under its stones, life is not entirely extinct… Local farmers say that the deep underground passages, where one can no longer penetrate due to landslides, are still inhabited. In one of them, in fact, every night you can hear a faint, barely perceptible noise: that of the dice rolling on the stone…
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