Guided Tour: On the Steps of Jacques Demy in Nantes

Ivan — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:14:26 +0000

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Visits - Activities - Architectural heritage

Through «Lola», «Une Chambre en ville», and «Jacquot de Nantes», discover Nantes' lighting by ...

22/06/2013

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La Maison du Port

admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:10:08 +0000

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Creperies

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02 40 34 61 73

Le Nid (The Nest) - Jean Jullien

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:20:12 +0000

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Night life - Points of interest

Bar with a panoramic view on the city

Permanent work created for the event "a Journey to Nantes 2012". [PASS] Free access and complimentary drink

Description

Weighing 80 000 tonnes, towering at a height of 144 m (472 feet), and with a water reservoir of 90 000 litres, the Tour Bretagne was inaugurated in 1976. The 32nd floor offers a 360° panorama over the metropolis. Jean Jullien, a fêted artist in the international world of graphic design, was entrusted with organizing this space. Born in Nantes, he now works and lives in London. Directly inspired by popular culture from his childhood (from cartoons to video games) and still today, through exhibitions, books, marketing campaigns, as part of the many commissions he has received from all over the world, he offers a sensitive and lunar universe, emphasized by the “handmade” aspect of his work. Le Nid is the home of an enormous white bird, half-stork, half-heron, who sleepily watches over the city. Its reassuring presence invites spectators to come contemplate the view. Its large body also doubles as a bar. As if leaping out of a Jean Jullien drawing, gigantic eggshells transform into seats and tables. On the walls, the artist’s hand has immortalized the city’s emblematic spots on bright posters.

Practical information

Opening times

From Thursday to Sunday 10.00 – 2.00 (last access 1.45)

Admission prices

Free access for the panoramic view, drinks at the bar are to be paid for.

Free

Pass Nantes

Disabled access

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Courriel

Nom du contact

Tour de Bretagne

Phone

02 40 35 36 49

Estuaire by night

Ivan — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:26:46 +0000

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Visits - Activities - Architectural heritage

night time visit of the works of Nantes

At nightfall, the works from the permanent collection Estuaire Nantes Saint-Nazaire will offer ...

31/05/2013

in Station prouve

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Nymphéa - Ange Leccia

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:55:17 +0000

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Night life - Cultural sites

Nymphéa, a new variation on the nymph theme, is a large video projection on the surface of the Saint-Félix canal. A young woman, nymph or mermaid, glides peacefully and quietly in an aquatic environment.

A young woman, nymph or mermaid, glides peacefully and quietly in an aquatic environnement. The fact that the water is both the image and the visual support of the projection creates a confusing and ethereal feeling: the creature seems imprisoned in this tunnel, her body taking the shape of this inhospitable back alley. The reflections play with the ever-moving surface of the water, a tribute to Claude Monet's visual experiments. The undine is played by Laetitia Casta, a worshipped icon of our society, becoming through this artwork a contempory mythical nymph.

Description

First a painter, Ange Leccia then went on to use the video as his creative medium. His “arrangements”, as he likes to call them, are born out of the people he meets and of a specific alteration of still images and moving images; these can either be torn, slowed down or cut.

Artwork of Estuaire 2009

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Opening times

Artwork visible from nightfall.

Free

Free access

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TRAMWAY : stop Duchesse Anne Château line : 1

L'esprit du Voyage

Ivan — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:56:56 +0000

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Visits - Activities - Cultural sites

02/06/2013

in Nantes tourisme

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Guided tour: the Journey in Nantes - District Ste Anne

Ivan — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:49:53 +0000

03/07/2013

in Esplanade jean bruneau

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HAB Galerie bookstore

admin — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:55:29 +0000

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Shopping

Musée des Beaux Arts bookstore

Books but not only ...

Description

During the renovation works for the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, its bookstore can be found in the HAB galerie during openning hours of the exhibition.

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Disabled access

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Phone

02 28 08 77 28

Tomb of François II - Michel Colombe

admin — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:00:20 +0000

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Points of interest

St Pierre and St Paul cathedral

A gem of the french Renaissance

Description

First enter the cathedral through the crypt from the entrance in the Cours Saint-Pierre, then walk inside the transept: you will see a gem of French sculpture, the tomb of François II, Michel Colombe’s masterpiece dating back to the early 16th century. Anne de Bretagne commissioned this tomb for her parents, François II, the last Duke of Brittany, and Marguerite de Foix. Made of white marble, it is composed of a high and massive base on top of which lay the two recumbent bodies of the royal couple. Their heads rest on cushions held up by angels, and at their feet sit a lion and a hare. The sides are decorated with full-scale statues in successive niches, along with “kneeling statues”. At each of the four corners, four imposing statues are the allegorical figures of the cardinal virtues. Given the scale and the height of the work, the average visitor cannot see the upper part of the tomb. The Journey to Nantes has put into place a light structure allowing for a privileged point of view of the two recumbent figures.

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Opening times

No acces during sevices

Free

Une nature sauvage au coeur de la ville

Ivan — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:12:01 +0000

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Visits - Activities

10/07/2013

in Péage sauvage

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