Saint-Avold
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Saint-Avold (German: Sankt Avold) is a town and commune in the Moselle département, Lorraine région in northeastern France.
It is situated twenty-eight miles (45 km) east of Metz and seventeen miles (27 km) southwest of Saarbrücken.
Just north of the town is the site of Europe's largest American military cemetery, the Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial, with 10,489 graves of Americans who died during World War II.
[Saint-Avold Basilica:[1],[2]]
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