23 Sights in Nancy, France (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Nancy, France. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 23 sights are available in Nancy, France.
Sightseeing Tours in Nancy1. Maison de Jean Prouvé
Jean Prouvé's house 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 part of the building, are classified as historical monuments by a decree of 2 November 1987.
2. Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Nancy is a Catholic Basilica of Roman-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 Rougieux architect. It is located west of the city of Nancy, near its border with the town of Laxou, in the Poincaré - Foch - Anatole France - Croix de Burgundy district. She is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
3. Chapelle de la Visitation
The Chapel of the Visitation, sometimes called the Round Chapel, is a chapel located in Nancy, France. The main vestige of the convent of the Visitandines with the adjoining wing, rue de la Visitation, it was built in the eighteenth century. Transformed into the Musée des Beaux-Arts during the Revolution, it was integrated under the First Empire into the walls of the Lycée Impérial de Nancy, which later became the Lycée Henri-Poincaré.
4. Musée Lorrain
The Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine - Lorraine Museum, is the historical museum of the Lorraine region, one of the three major museums of the city of Nancy, along with the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of the School of Nancy. With nearly 60,000 annual visitors, it aims to discover the history of this territory, from prehistory to the nineteenth century, and to bring to life the ducal past of this region, which became French in 1766.
5. Bibliothèque Stanislas
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.
6. Hôtel de Lillebonne
The Hôtel de Lillebonne is a private mansion in the city of Nancy. It is a sixteenth-century Renaissance building, 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.
7. Villa Majorelle
Louis-Jean-Sylvestre Majorelle, usually known simply as Louis Majorelle, was a French decorator and furniture designer who manufactured his own designs, in the French tradition of the ébéniste. He was one of the outstanding designers of furniture in the Art Nouveau style, and after 1901 formally served as one of the vice-presidents of the École de Nancy.
8. Synagogue
The Synagogue of Nancy is a synagogue located at 17, boulevard Joffre in Nancy, where it was inaugurated in 1788. At 19, boulevard Joffre, is the community center, in a modern cubic building, which houses several Jewish associations, such as the UEJF, the Scouts & Éclaireurs Israélites de France, the Wizo or the B'nai B'rith.
9. Hôtel Excelsior
The Excelsior brewery, colloquially designated by the apocope "Excel", or "the Flo" since its acquisition by the Flo group, is a French brasserie with Art Nouveau style architecture located in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle ), at the angle formed by the Henri-Poincaré and Mazagran streets, near Simone-Veil square.
10. Caserne Thiry
The Thiry Barracks, first known as the Sainte-Catherine Barracks, is a barracks located near the Porte Sainte-Catherine in Nancy. It was built from 1765 to 1769 according to the plans of the architect Richard Mique, on the orders of Louis XV, shortly before the annexation of Lorraine to France.
11. Hôtel de Rogéville
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 today houses a cultural structure: The Little Theatre, in the city...
12. Église de la Vierge des Pauvres
The Church of the Virgin of the Poor is a Catholic parish centre built in the mid-1960s in Nancy, in the Haut-du-Lièvre district, by the architect Dominique Louis. Claude Prouvé, who was working at Dominique Louis at the time, also collaborated on the project.
13. Église Saint-Nicolas
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.
14. Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation
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.
15. Maison Gaudin
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.
16. Église Sainte-Anne
The Sainte-Anne church is a church of Catholic worship decided in 1956 and built from 1957 to 1960 in Nancy, on avenue de Boufflers, in the Beauregard district. She was drawn by Pierre Prunet. The stained glass windows are from Camille Hilaire.
17. Le Souvenir
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 church.
18. Maison Bloch
The Bloch house is a house built in 1909 and 1910 at the 50 Léopold course in Nancy, on the plans of the architect Charles-Désiré Bourgon for the industrialist Auguste Bloch. The master glassmaker Jacques Gruber also participated.
19. Basilique Notre-Dame de Lourdes
The Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes in Nancy is a French basilica built southwest of the city of Nancy in the early 20th century. The plans were designed by the architect Jules Criqui, with the help of Abbé Léon Loevenbruck.
Wikipedia: Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes de Nancy (FR), Website
20. Place de la Croix-de-Bourgogne
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.
21. Immeuble Génin-Louis
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, was the first building with an exposed metal structure to be used partly as a dwelling.
22. Hôtel d'Alsace
The hotel has been the name that a hotel establishment has since 1963, a hotel located 13, rue des Beaux-Arts in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, one of the four districts of the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
23. Musée Archéologique
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)
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