Nantes

The history

The historic capital of Brittany at the mouth of the Loire — the ducal castle, the Jules Verne connection, and the whimsical Machines de l'île.

In brief

Nantes is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 327,734 in Nantes proper (2023) and a metropolitan area of over 1 million inhabitants (2022). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.

Then & now

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Where it is