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THE HISTOIRY IN AREAS... |
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is in the XVIII century that the architect Ceineray drew
the whole of currently visible facades on quays. At the
same period on the other bank, increased the building of
the island Feydeau. It deserves to it alone the detour:
this urbanistic set, unique and incomparable, builds an
alone vigor (in ten years) in the middle of the XVIII,
century, proposes the most elaborate architecture and the
most finished of this period. Merchants of Nantes
asserted there their fortune and their good taste, by
giving order to architects innovative who knew how to
enrich elegant balcony facades increasing in pyramids,
overcame of imposing pediments, and sustained by corbels
decorated of expressive lapel badges. Pass the place du Commerce and the palace de la Bourse that shelters the tourist information centre until the quay de la Fosse. The very beautiful hotel of the n° 17 presents an décoration with trophies and masonic emblems (compass, square, globe. .. ) Continue until the Médiathèque and by the rue neuve des Capucins, then on the right steat of the Héronnière. In this street, where herons lived in edge of Loire, do not lack to the n° 8 with the facade to chests and niches of the XIX, century. Take back up to left by the street Piron. |
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