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Country FRANCE NANTES (regional info) > Tourism & travel guide: Nantes BOOK HOTEL RESERVATIONS ONLINE OR BY LIVE TELEPHONE SUPPORT 24/7 US and Canada: 1-800-780-5733 Europe: 00-800-11-20-11-40 Use reference code: 361882 Cash Back Booking Incentives Room Sales and Hot Deals Special Internet Rate Price Guarantee All Seasons Nantes Centre Nantes APPART CITY NANTES CHATEAU Nantes APPART CITY NANTES VIARME Nantes Brit'Hotel Amandine Nantes CITEA NANTES CITEA RESIDENTIEL NANTES LA BEA Nantes Grand Hotel De Nantes Nantes Hotel Amiral Nantes Hotel De France Nantes Hotel des Colonies Nantes Hotel Stars Nantes Nantes Ibis Nantes Centre Tour Bretagne Nantes KYRIAD - NANTES CENTRE Nantes La Perouse NANTES Mercure Ile De Nantes Mercure Nantes Central Nantes Mercure Nantes Centre Gare Nantes Novotel Nantes Centre Cite des Congres Nantes Sejours & Affaires Nantes Atlantique Nantes Mairie de Nantes Tourism & Travel Guide: Nantes Nantes Regional Directory Google Images: Nantes Google Video: Nantes Google Map: Nantes Wikipedia: Nantes Customer Service & Support Airline Tickets Group Hotel Bookings Travel Weblog and Live Chat Travel Forum Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, while its metropolitan area is the eighth with 711,120 inhabitants at the 1999 census, and 804,833 inhabitants at a 2008 estimate. Nantes is the préfecture of the Pays de la Loire région, as well as the Loire-Atlantique département. It is also the most important city of the historic province of Brittany, and culturally still remains strongly identified with it. The city's name derives from the Nemnètes, a Gallic tribe who had settled there before the Romans conquered Gaul. In 2004, Time described Nantes as "the most livable city in all of Europe". read full wikipedia reference about Nantes, France " Arrival, Information And Accommodation " Dining in Nantes " Explore Nantes NANTES , the former capital of Brittany, is no longer officially part of the province: it was transferred to the Pays de la Loire in 1962 when the modern administrative regions were established. Nonetheless, such bureaucracy is not taken too seriously in a city whose history is so intimately bound up with Breton fortunes, and whose inhabitants still consider it to be an integral part of the province. A considerable medieval centre, it later achieved great wealth from colonial expeditions, the slave trade and shipbuilding - activities in turn surpassed by more recent industrial growth. Although much of the former provincial character of the city has been lost, thanks to such recent accretions as the tower blocks masking the Loire and motorways tearing past the city, it remains to its inhabitants an integral part of Brittany. The Loire, the source of Nantes' riches, has dwindled from the centre. As recently as the 1930s the river crossed the city in seven separate channels, but German labour as part of reparations for World War I filled in five. What are still called "islands" in the centre are now surrounded and isolated, not by water, but by hectic dual carriageways. These are not easy to cross, but they do at least mean that Nantes is separated into a series of discernible districts: the older medieval city is concentrated around the cathedral, with the château prominent in its southeast corner, and the elegant nineteenth-century town lies to the west, across the cours des 50-Otages OTHER POPULAR DESTINATIONS IN FRANCE Abbeville Aix En Provence Ajaccio Albi Amiens Angers Annecy Antibes Juan Les Pins Arles Avignon Bandol Bayeux Bayonne Beaulieu Sur Mer Beaune Besancon Biarritz Blois Bordeaux Boulogne Bourges Brest Caen Cagnes Calais Calvi Cannes Carcassone Carnac Chalon sur Saone Chambery Chamonix Chartres Cherbourg Clermont Ferrand Colmar Courbevoie Deauville Dieppe Dijon Dinard Evian Futuroscope Gordes Grasse Grenoble Honfleur Hyeres Juan Les Pins La Baule La Rochelle Le Havre Le Mans Le Mont St. Michel Le Touquet Les Sables d'Orlonne Lille Limoges Lorient Lourdes Lyon Macon Malo Marseille Menton Merignac Metz Montpellier Mulhouse Nancy Nantes Nice Nimes Orleans Paris Paris A - Paris C Paris D - Paris J Paris K - Paris Y Pau Perigueux Perpignan Poitiers Quimper Reims Rennes Roissy Rouen Strasbourg Toulon Toulouse Tours Troyes Valence Vannes Versailles Vichy

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