In 1900, the city's two main industries were food processing and shipbuilding. [132] The regions, established by acts of parliament in 1955 and 1972, loosely follow the pre-revolutionary divisions and Brittany was revived as Region Brittany. The neighbourhood committees, existing primarily to facilitate dialogue between citizens and the local government, meet twice a year. The latter has 520,000 passengers annually and succeeds the Roquio service, which operated on the Loire from 1887 to the 1970s. [23] The city is commonly known as la Cité des Ducs "the City of the Dukes [of Brittany]" for its castle and former role as a ducal residence. [194] The Roman city walls were largely replaced during the 13th and 15th centuries. Free to arrive late.. Free to invite your friends, your grandma, and your goldfish.. Free to get up late and go to bed early. Nantes built its first compressed-air tram network in 1879, which was electrified in 1911. [190] The city has 127 buildings listed as monuments historiques, the 19th-ranked French city. [123], Like most French municipalities, Nantes is part of an intercommunal structure which combines the city with 24 smaller, neighbouring communes. Nantes Métropole administers urban planning, transport, public areas, waste disposal, energy, water, housing, higher education, economic development, employment and European topics. Army. [198] The Counter-Reformation inspired two baroque churches: the 1655 Oratory Chapel and Sainte-Croix Church, rebuilt in 1670. [167] Nantes had a small Jewish community during the Middle Ages, but Jews were expelled from Brittany in 1240 and Judaism only reappeared after the French Revolution. At weekends the first train of the day leaves Nice around 06:57, and the last at 20:05. [69] Reacting to the growth of the rival port, Nantes built a 15 kilometres (9.3 miles)-long canal parallel to the Loire to remain accessible to large ships. Nantes is where one of these ridges, the Sillon de Bretagne, meets the Loire. It includes a Turkish bath, restaurant and bookshop and hosts art exhibits, drama, music and dance performances. During the 1980s and 1990s its economy became service-oriented and it experienced economic growth under Jean-Marc Ayrault, the city's mayor from 1989 to 2012. The Nantes to Nice train travel time is normally about 8 hours and 50 minutes, whatever time you make the journey. It has more than 1.6 million zoological specimens and several thousand mineral samples. Items include paintings, sculptures, photographs, maps and furniture displayed to illustrate major points of Nantes history such as the Atlantic slave trade, industrialisation and the Second World War. [165] However, it has waned since the 1970s because of the rise of atheism and secularism. Land north of Nantes is dominated by bocage and dedicated to polyculture and animal husbandry, and the south is renowned for its Muscadet vineyards and market gardens. [9] The European Commission noted the city's efforts to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions, its high-quality and well-managed public transport system and its biodiversity, with 3,366 hectares (8,320 acres) of green space and several protected Natura 2000 areas. Un groupe sans Majeed et Tatarusanu pour défier Nice. Nantes has a satirical weekly newspaper, La Lettre à Lulu, and several specialised magazines. The painting was bought by the city in 1994, and is on exhibit at the Historical Museum in the castle. In 2020, the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked Nantes as a Gamma world city. [189], Nantes' cityscape is primarily recent, with more buildings built during the 20th century than in any other era. Prediksi Nice vs Nantes 5 November 2015 menjadi topik bahasan dalam situs taruhanbolagroup.com dengan menyajikan berbagai data akurat antara kedua tim. The city is mentioned in about 50 folk songs, making it the most-sung-about city in France after Paris. [214] It hosts concerts, congresses and exhibitions, and is the primary venue of the Pays de la Loire National Orchestra. [41][42] Port traffic, insignificant during the Middle Ages, became the city's main activity. [173], Nantes experienced deindustrialisation after port activity in Saint-Nazaire largely ceased, culminating in the 1987 closure of the shipyards. The Graslin Theatre, built in 1788, is home to the Angers-Nantes Opéra. [163] Young couples with children tend to move outside the city because of high property prices, and most newcomers are students (37 percent) and adults moving for professional reasons (49 percent). The flag has a white cross on a black one; its quarters have Breton ermines except for the upper left, which has the city's coat of arms. Nantes was at the point where the river current and the tides cancelled each other out, resulting in siltation and the formation of the original islands. [111] France does not have ethnic or religious categories in its census, but counts the number of people born in a foreign country. Single-person households are 51.9 percent of the total, and 16.8 percent of households are families with children. [49] At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the Edict of Nantes (legalising Protestantism in France) was signed in the town. With a business incubator, it has 422 companies and 71 research and higher-education facilities and specialises in biopharmaceuticals, information technology, renewable energy, mechanics, food production and naval engineering. [235] Turner also made two sketches of the city, which are in collections at Tate Britain. During the 19th century, when many of the former universities reopened, Nantes was neglected and local students had to go to Rennes and Angers. [63], After the Battle of Nantes, the National Convention (which had founded the First French Republic) decided to purge the city of its anti-revolutionary elements. [250] Local TER trains serve Pornic, Cholet or Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie. They have made a big effort to attract visitors with things to see and do over the city. The Nantes metropolitan area had a population of 907,995 in 2013, nearly doubling since the 1960s. The current mayor of Nantes is Johanna Rolland (Socialist Party), who was elected on 4 April 2014. [30], Because tradesmen favoured inland roads rather than Atlantic routes,[31] Nantes never became a large city under Roman occupation. Although many of the walls were destroyed in the 18th century, some segments (such as Porte Saint-Pierre, built in 1478) survived. [16] Although its origins are unclear, "Condevincum" seems to be related to the Gaulish word condate "confluence". The Erdre includes Versailles Island, which became a Japanese garden during the 1980s. A local dialect (parler nantais) is sometimes mentioned by the press, but its existence is dubious and its vocabulary mainly the result of rural emigration. [44] From 1707 to 1793, Nantes was responsible for 42 percent of the French slave trade; its merchants sold about 450,000 African slaves in the West Indies. Upon entry, visitors are greeted with The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the word "freedom" written in 47 different languages from areas affected by the slave trade. [99] The city's lowest points, along the Loire, are 2 metres (6 feet 7 inches) above sea level. It has a large collection of exotic plants, including a 200-year-old Magnolia grandiflora and the national collection of camellia. [111], Nantes has 100 public parks, gardens and squares covering 218 hectares (540 acres). [228], A path along the Loire river banks, between the Anne-de-Bretagne Bridge and the Victor-Schoelcher footbridge begins the Nantes slavery memorial. [80] The city has a significant ultra-left radical scene, owing in part to the proximity of the ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Nantes has three other grandes écoles: the École supérieure du bois [fr] (forestry and wood processing), the School of Design and Exi-Cesi [fr] (computing). [237], Beurre blanc is Nantes' most-famous local specialty. The museum includes works by Tintoretto, Brueghel, Rubens, Georges de La Tour, Ingres, Monet, Picasso, Kandinsky and Anish Kapoor. At weekends the first train of the day leaves Nantes around 05:54, and the last at 18:40. Their primary countries of origin were Algeria (13.9 percent), Morocco (11.4 percent) and Tunisia (5.8 percent). [159] Nantes' population increased to 25,000 in 1600 and to 80,000 in 1793. [32] The wall in Nantes, enclosing 16 hectares (40 acres), was one of the largest in Gaul. 04-10-2019 vues : 130 Source : lequipe.fr Catégorie : Nantes - Nantes Foot . They facilitated crossing the river, contributing to the city's growth. In 1851, after much debate and opposition, Nantes was connected to Paris by the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway. 7.1% of public transit riders, ride for more than 2 hours every day. Ratiatum, founded under Augustus, developed more quickly than Nantes and was a major port in the region. [174] Since 2000 Nantes has developed a business district, Euronantes, with 500,000 square metres (5,400,000 square feet) of office space and 10,000 jobs. [237] Other specialties are the LU and BN biscuits, including the Petit-Beurre (produced since 1886), berlingot [fr] (sweets made with flavoured melted sugar) and similar rigolette [fr] sweets with marmalade filling, gâteau nantais (a rum cake invented in 1820), Curé nantais [fr] and Mâchecoulais cheeses and fouace, a star-shaped brioche served with new wine in autumn. The former, primarily the canning industry, included the biscuit manufacturer LU and the latter was represented by three shipyards which were among the largest in France. Neoclassical squares and public buildings were constructed, and wealthy merchants built sumptuous hôtels particuliers. [7] With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations. Sljedeće utakmice: 04.04. There were about fifteen sugar refineries in the city around 1750 and nine cotton mills in 1786. Further development is also planned on the north bank along an axis linking the train station and the Loire. This architecture has been called "Nantais baroque". [233], Nantes appears in a number of songs, the best-known to non-French audiences being 2007's "Nantes" by the American band Beirut. Le groupe de Nantes : Charles Traoré trop juste pour affronter Nice - Foot - L1 - Nantes - L'Équipe.fr . The main Protestant church belongs to the United Protestant Church of France, but the city also has a number of newer Evangelical and Baptist churches. [118] Nantes has three ecodistricts (one on the Isle of Nantes, one near the train station and the third in the north-east of the city), which aim to provide affordable, ecological housing and counter urban sprawl by redeveloping neglected areas of the city.[119]. [195], Several 15th- and 16th-century half-timbered houses still stand in Le Bouffay, an ancient area corresponding to Nantes' medieval core[196] which is bordered by Nantes Cathedral and the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany. Während der peinlichen Niederlage von … Other films set (or filmed) in Nantes include God's Thunder by Denys de La Patellière (1965), The Married Couple of the Year Two by Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1971), Day Off by Pascal Thomas (2001) and Black Venus by Abdellatif Kechiche (2010). Colors: Dodgerblue Website: www.polytech-reseau.org /en /home: The Polytech Group (Réseau des écoles Polytech, or Écoles polytechniques universitaires, in French) is a French network of 15 public graduate schools of engineering (Grandes Écoles) within France's leading technological universities. The building is a Romanesque Revival mansion facing a 15th-century manor. The French government eventually decided to renounce to the project in 2018. [164], Nantes is historically a Catholic city, with a cathedral, two minor basilicas, about 40 churches and around 20 chapels. In handball, volleyball and basketball, Nantes' men's and women's clubs play in the French first division: HBC Nantes and Nantes Loire Atlantique Handball (handball), Nantes Rezé Métropole Volley [fr] and Volley-Ball Nantes [fr] (volleyball) and Hermine de Nantes Atlantique and Nantes Rezé Basket [fr] (basketball). Local authorities intend to make it an extension of the city centre. The canal, completed in 1892, was abandoned in 1910 because of the efficient dredging of the Loire between 1903 and 1914. Natural areas, an additional 180 hectares (440 acres), include the Petite Amazonie (a Natura 2000 protected forest) and several woods, meadows and marshes. [262] The city publishes a free monthly magazine, Nantes Passion, and five other free magazines for specific areas: Couleur locale (Les Dervallières), Ecrit de Bellevue, Malakocktail (Malakoff) Mosaïques (Nantes-Nord) and Zest for the eastern neighbourhoods. Nantes never fully recovered its 18th-century wealth; the port handled 43,242 tons of goods in 1807, down from 237,716 tons in 1790. Although the castle had a military role, it was also a residence for the ducal court. The majority (60.8 percent) were 25 to 54 years old. [36] Around 490, the Franks under Clovis I captured the city (alongside eastern Brittany) from the Visigoths after a sixty-day siege;[37] it was used as a stronghold against the Bretons. Nantes and the Loire-Atlantique département were not included, because each new region centred on one metropolis. The former LU biscuit factory, facing the castle, has been converted into Le Lieu unique. [89], The river is tidal in the city, and tides are observed about 30 kilometres (19 miles) further east. Although local restaurants tend to serve simple dishes made with fresh local products, exotic trends have influenced many chefs in recent years. It was created in the 19th century with fill from construction of the Nantes-Brest canal. Cheap flights Belfast - Nantes. Saint-Denis Finance – Tax system / Consolidation Group [64], Nantes became a major industrial city during the second half of the 19th century with the aid of several families who invested in successful businesses. Although many parts of Brittany experienced significant Breton immigration (loosening ties to Rome), Nantes remained allied with the empire until its collapse in the fifth century. [86] Nantes and Bordeaux share positions at the mouth of an estuary, and Nantes is on the Loire estuary. Train Nice Train Nantes Train Nice Nantes Oui.sncf is the official European distribution channel of the French railways (SNCF) for online sales of high-speed and conventional rail travel throughout France and Europe: plan your journeys, book your train tickets and get inspired by our travel guides! Primarily a news channel, it is available in Loire-Atlantique and parts of neighbouring Vendée and Maine-et-Loire. In Nantes the Loire had divided into a number of channels, creating a dozen islands and sand ridges. [71], When the land reclamation was almost complete, Nantes was shaken by the air raids of the Second World War. [97], Nantes is built on the Armorican Massif, a range of weathered mountains which may be considered the backbone of Brittany. [50], Coastal navigation and the export of locally produced goods (salt, wine and fabrics) dominated the local economy around 1600. [89][90] The Loire is also the northern limit of grape culture. Between 1926 and 1946, most of the channels were filled in and their water diverted. [186] The city's remaining port terminal still handles wood, sugar, fertiliser, metals, sand and cereals, ten percent of the total Nantes–Saint-Nazaire harbour traffic (along the Loire estuary). [213] Since its opening in 2006, Placebo, Supertramp, Snoop Dogg and Bob Dylan have performed on its stage. [231] Fellow surrealist Julien Gracq wrote The Shape of a City, published in 1985, about the city. Under Charlemagne in the eighth century the town was the capital of the Breton March, a buffer zone protecting the Carolingian Empire from Breton invasion. [88] It is an architectural junction; northern French houses with slate roofs are north of the Loire, and Mediterranean dwellings with low terracotta roofs dominate the south bank. [70], At the beginning of the 20th century, the river channels flowing through Nantes were increasingly perceived as hampering the city's comfort and economic development. Nice breakfast, too. Annual attendance is about 150,000. Built in 1852, its dome was inspired by that of Les Invalides in Paris. Di María wird während PSG-Niederlage ausgeraubt . [91] The city is near the geographical centre of the land hemisphere, identified in 1945 by Samuel Boggs as near the main railway station (around 47°13′N 1°32′W / 47.217°N 1.533°W / 47.217; -1.533). On weekdays the earliest train to Nantes is usually scheduled to depart Nice around 05:19 and the last train is around 20:05. [184], In 2014, 74.6 percent of the city's businesses were involved in trade, transport and services; 16.2 percent in administration, education and health; 5.4 percent in construction, and 3.7 percent in industry. In 1961 the university was finally recreated, but Nantes has not established itself as a large university city. The men's Nantes Erdre Futsal [fr] futsal team plays in the Championnat de France de Futsal, and the main athletics team (Nantes Métropole Athlétisme) includes some of France's best athletes. Its statues represent the city of Nantes, the Loire and its main tributaries. [28] After an attack by German tribes in 275, Nantes' inhabitants built a wall; this defense also became common in surrounding Gaulish towns. [77] The 1970s global recession brought a large wave of deindustrialisation to France, and Nantes saw the closure of many factories and the city's shipyards. It was the seat of a bishopric at the end of the Roman era before it was conquered by the Bretons in 851. Its first inhabitants were apparently attracted by small iron and tin deposits in the region's subsoil. The concept has been exported to Bilbao, Tokyo and Warsaw, and the festival sold a record 154,000 tickets in 2015. The council has 65 councillors. The Drownings at Nantes were intended to kill large numbers of people simultaneously, and Carrier called the Loire "the national bathtub". My room was little but very clean, cozy and quiet. [99], The Sillon de Bretagne is composed of granite; the rest of the region is a series of low plateaus covered with silt and clay, with mica schist and sediments found in lower areas. On weekdays the earliest train to Nice is usually scheduled to depart Nantes around 05:23 and the last train is around 18:40. [73] British bombs first hit the city in August 1941 and May 1942. The party has held a majority since 1983, and Nantes has become a left-wing stronghold.