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Touring Nantes
Nantes in Loire-Atlantique (Pays de la Loire Region) with it's 277,269 residents is a town located in France about 213 mi (or 342 km) south-west of Paris, the country's capital place.
Time in Nantes is now 09:24 AM (Thursday). The local timezone is named Europe / Paris with an UTC offset of one hour. We know of 10 airports nearby Nantes, of which two are larger airports. The closest airport in France is Nantes Atlantique Airport in a distance of 5 mi (or 8 km), South-West. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There is one Unesco world heritage site nearby. It's Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay in a distance of 110 mi (or 177 km), North-East. Need some hints on where to stay? We compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Being here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Ancenis, Chateaubriant, La Roche-sur-Yon, Saint-Nazaire and Redon. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 17°C / 63 °F
Morning Temperature | 10°C / 50 °F |
Evening Temperature | 15°C / 60 °F |
Night Temperature | 13°C / 56 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 66% |
Air Pressure | 1024 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 8 km/h (5 mph) from West |
Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 0% of sky |
General Conditions | Sky is clear |
Friday, 1st of November 2024
19°C (65 °F)
13°C (55 °F)
Scattered clouds, gentle breeze.
Saturday, 2nd of November 2024
16°C (60 °F)
11°C (51 °F)
Scattered clouds, gentle breeze.
Sunday, 3rd of November 2024
18°C (64 °F)
13°C (55 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Okko Hotels Nantes Château
La Perouse
Hôtel Mercure Nantes Centre Grand Hôtel
Aparthotel Adagio Nantes Centre
Oceania Hôtel de France
Appart'City Confort Nantes Centre Résidence de Tourisme
Appart City Nantes Viarme Residence Hoteliere
Hôtel de Bourgogne
ibis Nantes Centre Tour Bretagne
Appart City Nantes Cité des Congrès Residence Hoteliere
Videos from this area
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Les autistes ont la parole- Conférence Asperger - Nantes, 23-01-2015
Conférence organisée par Julie, au sein de la Faculté de Psychologie de Nantes. Filmée le 23-01-2015. Quatre personnes Asperger (Julie, Raven, Magali et Valentin) témoignent et présentent...
Légo city undercover : 100% (découverte)[français]
Salut tout le monde on se retrouve cette fois sur légo city undercover mais attention car comme dirait nintendo il ya une (ou plus) révélation dans cette vidéo. Et oui car avec vous nous...
Lego city undercover : Partie 19 [français]
Salut tout le monde on se retrouve pour la suite du wt de lego city undercover. Dans cette vidéo on devient pompier ... Bonne vidéo à tous et à toute.
Lego city undercover the chase begins : partie 1 [français]
Salut tout le monde on se retrouve pour un new wt sur Lego city undercover the chase begins (sur 3DS). Le wt est en découverte dans cette vidéo on vous présente l'intro du jeu + la première...
FC Nantes | Battle de chant en entier Tribune Loire
FC Nantes - Evian Thonon Gaillard 2-1 Ambiance Tribune Loire 14/03/2015.
Le Voyage à Nantes
Visite embarquée du Voyage à Nantes par Louis-Marie Cochard. Simon Cadot - Mars Vidéos www.mars-videos.fr.
Le FC Nantes fête la fin de la saison 2013/2014 avec la Tribune Loire !!
Grosse ambiance à La Beaujoire après le dernier match a domicile de la saison 2013/2014. (10/05/2014). Les joueurs célèbrent la fin de cette belle saison avec tous les supporters, notamment...
Art of Skate - NANTES 2014
Pendant 2 jours, Mativi Val de Loire a posé son œil au skate park Le Hangar de Nantes. Le temps d'un week-end, quelques-uns des meilleurs skaters de l'Hexagone était là-bas pour participer...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Passage Pommeraye
The Passage Pommeraye is a small shopping mall in central Nantes, France, named after its property developer, Louis Pommeraye. Construction started at the end of 1840 and was completed on 4 July 1843. The Passage Pommeraye is a passage between two streets, the rue Santeuil and rue de la Fosse, with one 9.40 m higher than the other. Midway, there is a flight of steps and the mall then continues on another floor.
Nantes Cathedral
Nantes Cathedral or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Nantes (French: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes), is a Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The construction of the cathedral began in 1434, on the site of a Romanesque cathedral, and took 457 years to finish, finally reaching completion in 1891.
La Folle Journée
La Folle Journée is a French annual classical music festival held in Nantes. It is the largest classical music festival in France. The festival's name refers to the Pierre Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, whose alternative title is La Folle Journée ("The Follies of a Day"). René Martin founded the La Folle Journée festival in 1995, with the intention of presenting short classical music concerts for diverse audience, on one day.
Château des ducs de Bretagne
This article includes information translated from the Wikipedia article Château des ducs de Bretagne The Château des ducs de Bretagne (English: Castle of the Dukes of Brittany) is a large castle located in the city of Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique département of France; it served as the centre of the historical province of Brittany until its separation in 1941. It is located on the right bank of the Loire, which formerly fed its ditches.
Théâtre Graslin
The Théâtre Graslin is a theatre and opera house in the city of Nantes in France. Created in a new district of the city in the late 18th Century by the local architect Mathurin Crucy and named after the owner of the land, Jean-Louis Graslin. Built in the Italian style, the auditorium holds 822 people. Inaugurated on 23 March 1788 it quickly became a major opera house for the city which nowadays, along with the "Grand Théâtre d'Angers", combines with Angers to form a joint Angers-Nantes opera.
Gare de Nantes
The Gare de Nantes is the principal passenger railway station serving the French city of Nantes. It is a through station aligned east-west, with entrances and station facilities on both north and south sides. The two entrances are often described as Gare Nord and Gare Sud, as if they were separate stations, but they are in fact linked to each other and to all the platforms by a pedestrian subway.
Jardin des plantes de Nantes
The Jardin des plantes de Nantes (73,280 m²) is a municipal botanical garden located on Rue Stanislas Baudry, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France. It is open daily without charge, but a fee is charged for the greenhouses. The city's earliest botanical garden dated to 1688 as a small medicinal plant collection outside the city walls, near today's Rue Paré. It subsequently fell into disuse but in 1726 was revived as a Royal Garden for exotic plants.
Tour Bretagne
The Tour Bretagne (Tower Brittany in English), opened November 18, 1976 at 5:00 pm, is an office building situated in the city centre of Nantes between a main thoroughfare, Cours des 50-Otages, and the Place de Bretagne (Brittany square). With a height of 472 feet (144 meters), it dominates the skyline of Nantes and is the third tallest building in France outside of Paris, after Tour Part-Dieu in Lyon and CMA CGM Tower in Marseilles.
Palais de la Bourse (Nantes)
The Palais de la Bourse is a building on place du Commerce in Nantes, France, begun at the end of the 18th century and completed in the 19th century. It was rebuilt at the end of the 20th century to house a branch of Fnac.
Tomb of Francis II, Duke of Brittany
The tomb of Francis II, Duke of Brittany is a monument located in Nantes, in the Cathedral of St. Peter. The project was commissioned by Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, who was the daughter of Francis and his second wife Margaret of Foix, who is also depicted beside Francis. The tomb was originally located in the chapel of the Carmelites in Nantes. Francis II had wished that his body rest there, to join the remains of his first wife Margaret of Brittany.
Musée Dobrée
The Musée Dobrée is a museum in Nantes, in the quartier Graslin in the immediate outskirts of the city centre and very close to the city's Natural History Museum. It was given to the city by Thomas Dobrée (13 August 1810-1895) and now belongs to the Conseil général de la Loire-Atlantique. In January 2010, the Conseil général began a project to restructure and modernise the museum, which is planned for completion in 2015.
Donatian and Rogatian
Donatian and Rogatian were two brothers, martyred in Nantes during the reign of Roman Emperor Maximian, around 288-290, for refusing to deny their faith. They are also known as les enfants nantais. Their feast day is May 24.