Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Nancy, France

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 6.2 km
Ascend 72 m
Descend 84 m

Explore Nancy in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Nancy

Sight 1: Musée Archéologique

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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)

567 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Maison Bouret

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The Maison Bouret is a building located in the city of Nancy, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Lorraine region.

Wikipedia: Maison Bouret (FR)

441 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Maisons Huot

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Maisons Huot François BERNARDIN / CC BY 3.0

The Huot houses are a set of two twin houses, built in 1903 by Émile André, at 92 and 92bis numbers from the Quai Claude-le-Lorrain in Nancy.

Wikipedia: Maisons Huot (FR)

511 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Maison de Lucien Weissenburger

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The Weissenburger Building is located on Boulevard Charles-V in Nancy, near Cours Léopold.

Wikipedia: Immeuble Weissenburger (FR)

83 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Maison Chardot

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Maison Chardot is a building located in the city of Nancy, in Meurthe-et-Moselle in the Lorraine region.

Wikipedia: Maison Chardot (FR)

15 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 6: Maison Bloch

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Maison Bloch François BERNARDIN / CC BY 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Maison Bloch (FR)

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Hôtel des Loups

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The Hôtel des Loups, or Curel Hotel, is a mansion located rue des Loups in Nancy. It is a construction of the 17th century, of classic style, built by Germain Boffrand.

Wikipedia: Hôtel des Loups (FR)

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Hôtel de Hautoy

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The Hôtel de Hautoy is a building located in the city of Nancy, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Hautoy (FR)

104 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Hôtel de Lillebonne

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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.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Lillebonne (FR)

269 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Hôtel de Rogéville

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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 today houses a cultural structure: The Little Theatre, in the city...

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Rogéville (FR)

70 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Hôtel de Ligniville

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The Hôtel de Ligniville, or de Lignéville, is a private mansion in the Old Town of Nancy, located at number 23 Grande-Rue.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Ligniville (Nancy) (FR)

101 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Hôtel Héré

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Hôtel Héré François BERNARDIN / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Hotel Héré or Pavilion Héré is a building located in the city of Nancy, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle in the Grand Est region.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Héré (FR)

113 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Musée Lorrain

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Musée Lorrain Aucun auteur / marque déposée

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.

Wikipedia: Musée lorrain (FR), Website

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Hôtel de Chastenoy

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The Hôtel de Chastenoy is a building located in the city of Nancy, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Lorraine region.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Chastenoy (FR)

295 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Palais du Gouvernement

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The Palais du Gouvernement de Nancy, or Governor's Palace, is a large mansion in the French city of Nancy. It is an eighteenth-century building in the classical style with its own garden.

Wikipedia: Palais du gouvernement de Nancy (FR)

366 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Parc de la Pépinière

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The nursery park is a public garden of Nancy.

Wikipedia: Parc de la Pépinière (FR)

904 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 17: Caserne Thiry

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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.

Wikipedia: Caserne Thiry (FR)

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Muséum-Aquarium de Nancy

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Muséum-Aquarium de Nancy

The Aquarium Museum of Nancy, is a heritage establishment of scientific and technical culture jointly managed by the Métropole du Grand Nancy and the University of Lorraine.

Wikipedia: Aquarium Museum, Nancy (EN), Website

1115 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 19: Hôtel Excelsior

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Hôtel Excelsior Aucun auteur / marque déposée

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.

Wikipedia: Brasserie Excelsior (FR)

401 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 20: Parc Blondlot

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Parc Blondlot is a public garden in downtown Nancy, with an area of 5,800 m2. Initially privately owned, the site has belonged to the city of Nancy since 1932.

Wikipedia: Parc Blondlot (FR)

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