The Nantes-Atlantique airport is located 10 km southwest of Nantes
Driving directions
The airport is accessible from the Nantes ring road, just 10 minutes from the centre of Nantes.
Bus
TAN shuttle buses run between the airport and the city centre and are scheduled to match flight arrival and departure times. Tickets are available in the buses. There is a special shuttle stop outside the airport, and the trip takes around 20 minutes. Bus number 27 stops outside the main terminal and connects to line 2 of the Nantes tramway at La Nesutrie. From there, the tramway serves the city centre. There is a tramway every 20 minutes from Monday to Saturday.
Taxi
The taxi stand is located outside terminal 1. From Terminal 4, you can call a taxi to pick you up directly outside the terminal.
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Quality of Life
Nantes regularly tops 'quality of life' surveys as the best city in France in which to live.
Considering the competition, that's quite an achievement. It probably has something to do with the fact that the sixth-largest city in the country is full of parks, has beautiful cobbled streets and excellent public transportation. Not only that, it has great museums, a thriving arts scene and a large student population.
An important 18th-century trading port, Nantes occupies a prime position at the junction of the Loire, Erdre and Sèvre rivers. Presiding over the city centre is the beautiful Château des Ducs de Bretagne, renovated in 2006 to include a wonderful museum on the history of Nantes. The beautifully restored Gothic Cathédrale St-Pierre St-Paul is just north of the chateau.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts features a permanent collection including paintings by Georges de la Tour, Ingres and Courbet (and for three months of every year, it also houses visiting works from the Louvre). Slightly east, the immaculately tended Jardin des Plantes is worth a stroll. Across the railway tracks, the old LU biscuit factory houses Le Lieu Unique, a contemporary arts centre with a cool restaurant and bar. The tower offers panoramic views of the city.
The Cours des 50 Otages roughly separates the pedestrianised medieval quartier Bouffay, just west of the cathedral, from the 18th- and 19th-century area around the Place du Commerce. The lovely Place Graslin contains the recently renovated, neo-classical opera house.
Most big designer names and local fashion labels can be found around rue Crébillon. The extraordinary Passage Pommeraye is a three-level, 19th-century arcade linking lofty rue Crébillon with the place du Commerce below. The lavish interior of traditional chocolatier Gautier Debotté has been classed as a national monument.
Sightseeing :
- The Château des Ducs de Bretagne
- The Machines de l'île
- Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Cathedral
- The Musée des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts Museum)
- The Botanical Gardens and Exotic Greenhouses
- The Port, île Feydeau
- Passage Pommeraye
- Théatre Graslin
- Butte Sainte-Anne with a magnificent view overlooking the Loire
- Musée Jules Verne
- Musée Dobrée
- The Natural History Museum
- La Cigale Restaurant
- The Maison Radieuse by architect Le Corbusier
- The Palais de Justice (courthouse) by architect Jean Nouvel
- Trentemoult, a picturesque fishing port
- Erdre river cruise
- Muscadet vineyards
