Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Nantes, France

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 6 km
Ascend 102 m
Descend 110 m

Experience Nantes in France in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in NantesIndividual Sights in Nantes

Sight 1: Hôtel Blon-et-Amouroux

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The Hôtel Blon-et-Amouroux is a private mansion built between 1828 and 1856, located at 5 Place Général-Mellinet, in the Dervallières - Zola district of Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1991.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Blon-et-Amouroux (FR)

35 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 2: Hôtel Maës

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The Hotel Maës is a private mansion built in 1827, located at 4 Place Général-Mellinet between Boulevard Allard and Rue Richer, in the Dervallières - Zola district of Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 2011.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Maës (FR)

26 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 3: Hôtel Vauloup

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The Hôtel Vauloup is a private mansion built between 1828 and 1856, located at 3 Place Général-Mellinet, in the Dervallières - Zola district of Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1988.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Vauloup (FR)

60 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Hôtel Allard

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The Hôtel Allard is a private mansion built between 1828 and 1856, located at No. 1 Place Général-Mellinet between Rue de Belleville and Boulevard de Launay, in the Dervallières - Zola district of Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1991 and 2008.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Allard (FR)

829 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 5: Musée Dobrée

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Musée Dobrée

The Musée Dobrée is a museum in Nantes, in the quartier Graslin in the immediate outskirts of the city centre and very close to the city's Natural History Museum. It was given to the city by Thomas Dobrée and now belongs to the Conseil général de la Loire-Atlantique. In January 2010, the Conseil général began a project to restructure and modernise the museum, which is planned for completion in 2023.

Wikipedia: Musée Dobrée (EN), Website, Vimeo

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Immeuble sur le Cours Cambronne

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Immeuble sur le Cours Cambronne Rehtse / CC BY-SA 3.0

The building, built in the 18th century and 19th century, was located at No. 2 on rue des Cadeniers and on Cambronne Cours in Nantes, in France. The building was registered as historic monuments in 1949.

Wikipedia: Immeuble au 2, rue des Cadeniers de Nantes (FR)

428 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Immeuble CGA

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The CGA's building is located in Nantes, in the French department of Loire-Atlantique. It received the "Heritage of the 20th century" label, before being listed as a Historic Monument by the decree of 10 July 2015.

Wikipedia: Immeuble CGA (FR)

605 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 8: Basilique Saint-Nicolas

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The Basilica of Saint-Nicolas de Nantes is a neo-Gothic style Catholic basilica located in the city center of Nantes. It is one of the two basilicas in the city, along with the Basilica of Saint-Donatien-et-Saint-Rogatien.

Wikipedia: Basilique Saint-Nicolas de Nantes (FR)

316 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Maison des Apothicaires

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The Apothecaries' House is a half-timbered house, located at No. 2, rue Carmes, in the city center of Nantes, France.

Wikipedia: Maison des Apothicaires (FR)

252 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Square Amiral Halgan

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Square Amiral Halgan

Emmanuel Halgan was a French Navy officer and admiral.

Wikipedia: Emmanuel Halgan (EN)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Hôtel Saint-Aignan

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The Hotel Saint-Aignan is a flamboyant Gothic mansion built at the end of the fifteenth century, located on rue Saint-Jean, in the city center of Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1926.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Saint-Aignan (FR)

54 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Enceinte gallo-romaine

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Enceinte gallo-romaine

The Gallo-Roman enclosure of Nantes is a wall surrounding the city of Portus Namnetum, from the time of Roman Gaul to the High Middle Ages, of which only vestiges remain.

Wikipedia: Enceinte gallo-romaine de Nantes (FR)

273 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Monument aux Cinquante Otages et à la Résistance

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The monument to the 50-otage is a monument of Nantes built on the Esplanade des Cinq-Communes-Compagnon-de-la-Libération east of Place du Pont-Morand on the edges of the Erdre.

Wikipedia: Monument aux 50-Otages (FR)

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Hôtel du Département

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The Hôtel de Préfecture de la Loire-Atlantique is a building located in Nantes, France. It is the seat of the prefecture of the Loire-Atlantique department.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de préfecture de la Loire-Atlantique (FR)

99 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Hôtel Mellient

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The Hotel Mellient is a private mansion built in the eighteenth century, located at 7 rue Tournefort, in the city center of Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1954.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Mellient (FR)

221 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Statue de la Délivrance

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La Délivrance is a 1914 bronze statue by the French sculptor Émile Oscar Guillaume (1867–1942). The statue was created as a celebration of the First Battle of the Marne, when the German army was stopped before capturing Paris in August 1914.

Wikipedia: La Délivrance (EN)

227 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Tables mémoriales de 1914-1918

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The monument to the dead of the 1914-1918 war is a war memorial built in Nantes in memory of the soldiers from the city who fell during the First World War. The work is by Camille Robida.

Wikipedia: Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1914-1918 (Nantes) (FR)

75 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Hôtel Urvoy de Saint-Bedan

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The Hotel Urvoy de Saint-Bedan is a private mansion built in 1840, located at the corner of Rue Tournefort and Rue d'Argentré, in the city center of Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1954.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Urvoy de Saint-Bedan (FR)

131 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Hôtel Cottin de Melleville

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The Hôtel Cottin de Melleville is a private mansion built in the eighteenth century, located at No. 1 rue Tournefort in Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1954.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Cottin de Melleville (FR)

75 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Hôtel d'Aux

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The Hôtel d'Aux, which later became the Hôtel du 11e Corps d'Armée, is a neo-classical style mansion built at the end of the eighteenth century, located at the corner of Place Maréchal-Foch and Rue Tournefort, in the city center of Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 2012.

Wikipedia: Hôtel d'Aux (FR)

19 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 21: Hôtel de Montaudoin

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The Hôtel Montaudouin is a neo-classical style mansion built at the end of the eighteenth century, located on the Place Maréchal-Foch, in the city center of Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1951 and 1954.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Montaudouin (FR)

241 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul

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Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul

Nantes Cathedral, or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes, is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral located in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Construction began in 1434, on the site of a Romanesque cathedral, and took 457 years to finish in 1891. It has been listed since 1862 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

Wikipedia: Nantes Cathedral (EN)

307 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Colonne Louis XVI

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The Louis-XVI Column is a monument in the city of Nantes in France, installed in the center of the Place Maréchal-Foch. It is a twenty-eight-metre-high column, placed on a pedestal, surmounted by a statue of the King of France Louis XVI.

Wikipedia: Colonne Louis-XVI (FR)

75 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 24: Maison du Chapitre

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The building, built in the eighteenth century, is located at No. 2 Rue Sully and on Cours Saint-André in Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1954. The building in its entirety, formed by Nos. 2 and No. 3 of the Rue Sully, constitutes the House of the Chapter.

Wikipedia: Immeuble au 2, rue Sully de Nantes (FR)

38 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 25: Hôtel Ceineray

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The Hotel Ceineray, built in the eighteenth century, is located at No. 1 rue Sully in Nantes, France, on the edge of the Malakoff - Saint-Donatien district. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1954.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Ceineray (FR)

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 26: Chapelle de l'Oratoire

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The Chapel of the Oratory is a former chapel of the Oratorians of the seventeenth century located in Nantes, France. It is located on the Place de l'Oratoire, in the Malakoff - Saint-Donatien district. Incorporated into the Hôtel Lelasseur in 1775, this chapel was classified as a historical monument in 1952. No longer dedicated to the celebration of worship, it has become an annex of the city's Museum of Arts.

Wikipedia: Chapelle de l'Oratoire (Nantes) (FR)

90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 27: Hôtel de la Pilorgerie

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The Hôtel de la Pilorgerie is a neo-classical style mansion built at the end of the eighteenth century, located in the rue Georges-Clemenceau, in Nantes, France. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1988. It is built symmetrically with a sister hotel, the Hotel Cazenove de Pradines.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de la Pilorgerie (FR)

86 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 28: Museum of Fine Art of Nantes

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Museum of Fine Art of Nantes

The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes, along with 14 other provincial museums, was created, by consular decree on 14 Fructidor in year IX. Today the museum is one of the largest museums in the region.

Wikipedia: Musée d'Arts de Nantes (EN), Website

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 29: Ancien couvent de la Visitation

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The Convent of the Visitation is a former convent of Visitandines located in Nantes, France. Confiscated during the French Revolution, it became a hospital, a garrison circle and then a residence for the elderly. It was listed in the supplementary inventory of historical monuments in 1925.

Wikipedia: Couvent de la Visitation (Nantes) (FR)

465 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 30: Jardin des Plantes

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Jardin des Plantes rosier / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Jardin des plantes de Nantes is a municipal botanical garden located on Rue Stanislas Baudry, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France. It is open daily without charge, but a fee is charged for the greenhouses.

Wikipedia: Jardin des plantes de Nantes (EN), Website

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