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Nantes

Nantes
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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nantes

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Stade de la Beaujoire

    Stadium in Nantes, France

    4.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nantes Cathedral

    Cathedral located in Loire-Atlantique, in France

    300 m · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Nantes University

    French university based in Nantes

    2.3 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Château des ducs de Bretagne

    Castle of the Dukes of Brittany, Nantes, France

    300 m · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Nantes Museum of Arts

    Arts museum in Nantes, France

    500 m · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tour Bretagne

    Skyscraper in Nantes, France

    400 m · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    basilique Saint-Donatien-et-Saint-Rogatien

    Catholic church in Nantes, France

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Théâtre Graslin

    Opera house in Nantes, France

    800 m · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Basilique Saint-Nicolas

    Basilica located in Loire-Atlantique, in France

    400 m · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Île de Versailles Japanese Garden

    Japanese styled garden in Nantes

    1 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Nantes

Airports
Nantes Atlantique (NTE), 8 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 254 km · Bordeaux–Mérignac (BOD), 273 km
Stations
Nantes station, 900 m · Gare de Rezé-Pont-Rousseau, 2.7 km · Gare de Saint-Sébastien-Pas-Enchantés, 3.4 km · Gare de Saint-Sébastien-Frêne-Rond, 5.3 km · Port of Nantes, 2.2 km
  • Brest → Nantes
    1887 km · quickest by air, 7h 22m · $400–620
  • Bordeaux → Nantes
    275 km · quickest by air, 3h 59m · €90–140
  • Paris (Orly, Val-de-Marne) → Nantes
    337 km · quickest by air, 3h 50m · €80–120
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nantes

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nantes. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBlablacar services from other French cities are often car-share rides, and may start or drop off some distance from city centres.
  • Get aroundNaolib is the integrated public transport network, with three tram lines, two BusWays (buses with re-assignment surgery into trams), 50-some daytime bus lines, three night buses, and Navibus river ferries.

From Wikivoyage: Nantes, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    386 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    495 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    722 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    817 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    877 km

If you know how people move in Nantes – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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