Places to see in ( Nantes - France )

Places to see in ( Nantes - France )

Nantes, a city on the Loire River in the Upper Brittany region of western France, has a long history as a port and industrial center. It's home to the restored, medieval Château des Ducs de Bretagne, where the Dukes of Brittany once lived. The castle is now a local history museum with multimedia exhibits, as well as a walkway atop its fortified ramparts.

Nantes was once an important port located 50 km up the Loire River. It grew rich on the triangular trade with Africa and the West Indies. Nantes is also famous for being the home of the science fiction writer Jules Verne.

Several well known districts in Nantes:

1 Place du Commerce: This is the centre of the city and everybody will be able to direct you here. Near here you will find la Place Royale, le Quai de la Fosse, la rue Crébillon (famous for its posh shops)
2 Place du Bouffay: Old Nantes, with many restaurants and known for foreign food. There are also many bars.
3 Talensac: Famous for its market.
4 Decré: A pedestrian shopping district close to Bouffay.
5 Île de Versailles: An island in the river Erdre close to the city centre (reach it from Tram line 2). The entire island is a Japanese garden and is a pleasant place to relax.
6 Rue Crébillon: Semi pedestrian street at the junction of la place Royale and la place Graslin, where the main clothes shops are situated. Pour ceux qui ne compte pas leur argent (for those who do not count their money).
7 Quai de la fosse: Bars and prostitutes on the week-end. Used to be called by locals Quai de la fesse (Quay of Buttocks).
Butte St-Anne: West of the place du Commerce, in the quartier de Chantenay. Old buildings and a view on the former port.
8 Le quai des Antilles: A nice place to get a drink. Lots of bars and restaurants.

You can take Nantes out of Brittany (as when regional boundaries were redrawn during WWII), but you can't take Brittany out of its long-time capital, Nantes (Naoned in Breton). Spirited and innovative, this artsy city on the banks of the Loire has a history of reinventing tself. It was founded by Celts around 70 BC and in AD 937 it joined the duchy of Brittany. The Edict of Nantes, a landmark royal charter guaranteeing civil rights to France's Huguenots (Protestants), was signed in Nantes by Henri IV in 1598.

Alot to see in ( Nantes - France ) such as :

Château des ducs de Bretagne (Castle of the Dukes of Brittany)
Cathédrale Saint Pierre
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts Museum)
La Chapelle de l'Oratoire.
Place Maréchal-Foch.
Le Passage Pommeraye.
l'Ile de Versailles
Le Cours Cambronne.
La Place Mellinet.
Place du Bouffay.
Ile Feydeau
Le Maillé-Brézé
Jules Verne Museum
Palais de Justice
La Tour LU (The LU Tower)
The lieu unique
Musée Thomas Dobrée.
Le Jardin des Plantes
Le Marché Talensac
The Machines de l'Ile (Machines of the Isle of Nantes)
Land Hemisphere
La Baule

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