France Tourism

Nantes, Gateway to the Loire Valley and to Brittany, Nantes is recognised as European capital of good living. Experience winds from the West, the aroma of iodine and salt, lights on the Loire, café atmosphere, tropical trees in the botanical garden, 18th-century seafaring adventure in the times of the three-masters and a crazy cultural modernity... Not forgetting Muscadet, the most famous of the Nantes wines. The anthology of emotions of the city of the Dukes of Brittany, is infinite.

Places to see
- Castle of the Ducs de Bretagne
- The island’s machines
- Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul Cathedral
- Musée des Beaux Arts (fine arts)
- Jardin des Plantes and its exotic greenhouses
- The Port, Île Feydeau, its wrought-ironwork and grotesque masks
- Pommeraye arcade
- Butte Sainte-Anne and its magnificent panorama over the Loire
- Boat trips on the Erdre and its Châteaux
- The Muscadet wine-growing area
- The finest beach in Europe, La Baule, and the Guérande peninsula
- Gastronomic specialities: fish and seafood
- New : the Nantes History museum

Getting there
- High-speed-train station: 2 hrs from Paris, 4 hrs 30 from Lyon, 4 hrs from Lille
- Airport: Nantes Atlantique (10 km from the city centre)
- “Tan Air“ shuttles between the airport and the city centre
- Trams (line 1 serves the station and principal tourist sites)
- Motorways: A11, A83 (390 km from Paris)

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