27 Sights in Nancy, France (with Map and Images)

The Synagogue of Nancy is a synagogue located at 17, boulevard Joffre in Nancy, where it was inaugurated in 1788. At 19 Boulevard Joffre, the community centre is located in a modern cubic-shaped building that houses several Jewish associations, such as the UEJF, the Éclaireuses & Éclaireurs Israélites de France, the Wizo and the B'nai B'rith.

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The Place Stanislas is a large pedestrianised square in the French city of Nancy, in the Lorraine historic region. Built between 1752 and 1756 on the orders of Stanislaus I, the square is one of the oldest examples of an architecturally consistent and monumental public square, and is an excellent example of 18th-century urban architecture. Since 1983, the architectural ensemble comprising the Place Stanislas, the extension of its axis, the Place de la Carrière and the Place d'Alliance, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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The Hôtel de Lillebonne is a private mansion in the city of Nancy. It is a sixteenth-century construction, in the Renaissance style, located at number 14 rue du Cheval-Blanc, at the corner with rue de la Source, in Ville-Vieille. Today, the hotel is part of a group of buildings that houses a youth and culture centre as well as a contemporary art space, the Galerie Lillebonne.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Lillebonne (FR)

The Excelsior brewery, colloquially referred to by the apocope "L'Excel", or "Le Flo" when the Flo group owned it, is a French brasserie with Art Nouveau architecture located in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), at the corner of Henri-Poincaré and Mazagran streets, near Place Simone-Veil.

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The Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes in Nancy is a French basilica built in the southwest of the city of Nancy in the early twentieth century. The plans were designed by the architect Jules Criqui, with the help of Abbot Léon Loevenbruck.

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The Protestant Temple of Nancy or Temple Saint-Jean is a reformed Protestant place of worship located at Place André-Maginot in Nancy. The parish is a member of the United Protestant Church in France. The building is an old Catholic church, built in 1759 for the Saint-Joseph abbey of the order of regular canons of Prémontré. Disappected during the French Revolution, the abbey was assigned to Protestant worship in 1807.

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Nancy Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Nancy, Lorraine, France. It was erected in the 18th century. The cathedral is in the Baroque architectural style. It is a national monument and the seat of the Bishop of Nancy and Toul.

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The house of Jean Prouvé is an avant-garde house of International Style / Contemporary Architecture / Modern Movement, from Nancy in Lorraine in the Grand Est. Built in 1954 by the architect designer Jean Prouvé (1901-1984), as an experimental personal family home, it was acquired by the city of Nancy in 1990, administered by the Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy since 2013, and open to visitors as a museum from June to September. The house and office of his 1947 workshops in Maxéville, reconstructed in the lower area, are classified as historical monuments by a decree of November 2, 1987.

Wikipedia: Maison de Jean Prouvé (FR)

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Nancy is a Roman Catholic basilica in the Romanesque-Byzantine style, inspired by the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre in Paris. It is mainly due to the talents of three men: Monsignor Turinaz, Canon Blaise and the architect Rougieux. It is located west of the city of Nancy, near its border with the commune of Laxou, in the Poincaré - Foch - Anatole France - Croix de Bourgogne district. It is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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The Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy, one of the oldest museums in France, is housed in one of the pavilions on the Place Stanislas, in the heart of the 18th-century urban ensemble, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The museum displays an important collection of European paintings and is largely open to design, including a gallery dedicated to Jean Prouvé or the Daum factory.

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The Chapel of the Visitation, sometimes called the Round Chapel, is a chapel located in Nancy. The main vestige of the Visitandine convent with the adjoining wing, rue de la Visitation, it was built in the eighteenth century. Transformed into a Museum of Fine Arts during the Revolution, it was integrated under the walls of the Imperial High School of Nancy, which later became the Lycée Henri-Poincaré.

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The Souvenir is a bronze group made by the French sculptor Paul Dubois to commemorate the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany during the war of 1870. It is located on Place André-Maginot, in Nancy, in front of the Protestant temple.

Wikipedia: Le Souvenir (FR)

The Jacques pharmacy is a pharmacy located in Nancy, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, in the Lorraine region. It was built in the École de Nancy style by Lucien Bentz in 1903, for the pharmacist Victor Jacques.

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The Place de la Croix-de-Bourgogne is a tree-lined square in the city of Nancy. It takes its name from the cross worn by Charles the Bold, who died at the Battle of Nancy, and to whom René II of Lorraine wanted to pay homage.

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The Hôtel de Rogéville is a private mansion in the Old Town of Nancy, located at 11 Grande-Rue, at the corner of Rue du Maure-qui-Trompe. It is a Renaissance style building, modified in the classical period, which housed a cultural structure: Le Petit Théâtre, dans la ville..., which has now become the L.E.M. managed by the company En Verre et contre Tout.

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The Génin-Louis store, known as Graineterie Genin Louis, at the corner of rue Saint-Jean and rue Bénit in Nancy in Meurthe-et-Moselle, is the first building with an exposed metal structure to be used partly as a dwelling.

Wikipedia: Immeuble Génin-Louis (FR)

The Gaudin house is a house built by the architect Georges Biet in 1899 in Nancy, at 97 rue Charles-III, for the leather merchant Alphonse Gaudin. This building is one of the first manifestations of the Art Nouveau movement of the School of Nancy.

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The Villa Lang is a house built by the architect Lucien Weissenburger in Nancy, at no. 1 boulevard Georges-Clemenceau in the park of Saurupt. This building is one of the representations of the Art Nouveau movement of the School of Nancy.

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The Bibliothèque municipale de Nancy is a public library in Nancy, France. It houses approximately 400,000 documents, books, maps, plans and prints. Polish king Stanisław Leszczyński began the collection in 1750. The library is located in a 1769 building of the historical University of Nancy. At 43, rue Stanislas, it is close to the Place Stanislas and the Gare de Nancy-Ville.

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The Church of Saint-Nicolas is a religious building in Nancy, France, built in the 19th century by Prosper Morey for one of the three original parishes in the new town of Nancy. It is dedicated to the patron saint of Lorraine—Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myre.

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The Bloch House is a house built in 1909 and 1910 at 50 cours Léopold in Nancy, according to the plans of the architect Charles-Désiré Bourgon for the industrialist Auguste Bloch. Master glassmaker Jacques Gruber also participated.

Wikipedia: Maison Bloch (FR)

The Adams' house is a remarkable building in the city of Nancy. It is an eighteenth-century construction in the classical style that was the home of a famous dynasty of Lorraine and then French sculptors.

Wikipedia: Maison des Adam (FR)

The Arc Héré or Porte Héré is a triumphal arch located in the city of Nancy, France, on the north side of the Place Stanislas. It was designed by Emmanuel Héré de Corny to honor the French king Louis XV and was built between 1752 and 1755. Its architecture is inspired by the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome. The Arc replaced an older royal gate constructed under the rule of Louis XIV; three bas reliefs from the old gate are featured on the Arc.

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The Hotel is the name that has been given since 1963 to a hotel located at 13, rue des Beaux-Arts in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, one of the four districts of the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

Wikipedia: Hôtel d'Alsace (FR)

The Commandery of Saint-Jean-du-Vieil-Aître is the oldest visible building in Nancy. Dating from the twelfth century, it is one of the few Romanesque style monuments in the city. The tower is the remains of a church that was founded by Duke Mathieu I, and which was destroyed in the middle of the nineteenth century. It has been owned by the city of Nancy since 1950.

Wikipedia: Tour de la Commanderie Saint-Jean-du-Vieil-Aître (FR)

The Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine – Lorraine Museum was created in Nancy in 1850 on the initiative of the Lorraine Archaeology Society and installed in a group of three sites classified as historical monuments. It includes the ducal palace and its garden, the Cordeliers complex, and the government palace.

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The Archaeological Museum of the University of Lorraine (MAUL) is a university museum located in Nancy, which depends on the University of Lorraine, and which houses a collection of archaeological objects.

Wikipedia: Musée archéologique de l'Université de Lorraine (FR)