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We present you here some aspects of the history of the architecture of Nantes:

and its main sites and tourist areas:

 

 

 

 

 

Nantes medieval:
The historical heart, cathedral and castle

Two big historical monuments evoke the lucky period of the XVth century of Nantes: the imposing and stirring gothic cathedral since its internal restoration and the castle, one of the last feudal realizations, that bathed waters of the Loire. It is there that was born the Duchess - queen Anne of Brittany. The last Dukes of Brittany lived in "princes" in the city that they had chosen as capital of their dukedom; they constructed a new cathedral and a new castle - deserving prestigious palace of the luxurious yard that they maintained then. As exclaimed later Henri IV:
" stomach Saint - gray, our cousins of Brittany were not small companions ". Around the two more prestigious Gothic structures, that are the cathedral Saint Pierre and the castle of Dukes of Brittany, has developed the medieval city.
We discover the charm through its lanes fitted in pedestrian area around the place of the Bouffay and the Church Sainte Croix. Names of street evoke the ancient corporations of the Middle - age that have left place to a blossom of restaurants. It is in the beautiful days a very animated place.

 

 

Nantes 18th century
 

Whole Nantes in the time of Isles: here is what promises the island Feydeau, who that takes the sorrow to linger there by strolling. Leave to the discovery of this galeon of stone anchored to the centre of the city, is revived it with the past with slaves, that, both haunts and exalts the memory of Nantes:
slavery, shame, suffering but equally exoticism, opulence and adventure superpose and confront in this loaded history place. Many legends around these arrogance houses fitted with lapel badges and pot-bellied balconies in wrought iron, to evocative names such that the" temple of the Taste ", are not the fruit of the chance and can not leave insensitive. ..

Nantes 14 July 1911 The island Feydeau seen in negative balloon:
Collection Gendron

 

 

Nantes 19th century

 

 

With industry of the XIX` century, the city is becoming middle-class and created new commercial areas around the Theater Graslin, place of cultural event place, meeting in terraces of cafes. In 1843, is inaugurated the passage Pommeray that, since the street Crébillon, allows to join the area of the bourse by a gallery to three levels, realized in a rococco style . If you seek the tranquillity, you will be able to stroll in the yard Cambronne or around the museum Thomas Dobrée, before going" crébillonner "in the most shopping streat of the ancient" Venice of the West ".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nantes moderne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nantes the Atlantic has made flowered beautiful works
of art:

The bridge of Cheviré

Link of the road of estuaries, it spans the Loire since 1991. (Architect
Philippe Fraleu)

The City of Congress

It increases in rim of the canal Saint-Félix near of the South access
of the station and the ancient and prestigious bicuit factory LU. The
aluminium and the glass, the marble and woods: the future conjugates to the
present. The facade gives the tone:
the City of Congress plays the light and the transparency. (Architect Yves
Lion)

The Médiathèque

it is coupled with the museum of the press. (architects Ferré and Salmon)

The stadium of the Beaujoire

It has 50 000 places. (Architect Agopyan)

The Hotel of the Region

Architectural event, the inauguration of this hotel has marked, in 1986, the
entry on stage of an institution in the future promising.
(Architect another Durand, Ménard and Thibault)
One to another, or one without the other, all these new
symbols of the city can be visited according to the available time.

 

 

 
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