Saint-Dié

Saint-Dié grew around a religious community in the upper Meurthe valley, among the wooded mountains of the Vosges. Its churches and cloister form a great complex of pink sandstone. Fire damaged their roofs in 1554, and another blaze devastated much of the town in 1757. Stanisław Leszczyński, duke of Lorraine, had the town rebuilt on a more regular plan; in 1777 Saint-Dié became the seat of a bishop.