Strolls in the loire atlantique department

Medieval city, always surrounded by its 1, 434 km of ramparts, Guérande is famous today as well by the quality of its monuments as by its Salt-water Marsh which extends on nearly 2000 hectares. Labellisée Town of art and history, Guérande opens the doors of his medieval city to you...

To see: Castle of Careil

History Bourg country whose early development was led by St. Martin about the year 600 and subsequently relayed by the trade on Sevre Nantes, Vertou now succeeded in establishing itself as a small city of balance, "Common green gateway to the town. In diversified economic activities where the wine still holds its place, the benefits of cultural activities, sports or leisure Vertou give a certain lifestyle that seduces its visitors. Sometimes called "Vrezou" in the texts of the eighteenth century, Vertou find the origin of its name from the Latin word "Vertavum" or Celtic "Vertaw. Hence the name of the inhabitants of the town: the Vertaviens.

In the south of the department, on the axis Nantes - Vendean Coast, Machecoul is a small city centers (5701 inhabitants) or pole of balance within the department of Loire-Atlantique. Beyond the number of its inhabitants, it consolidates and develops general-purpose functions, seldom added in rural medium: public administrations, services, hospital complex, industrial and agricultural economy, teaching and formations, associative richness as well on the cultural level, sportsman as social...

All that made of Machecoul a pleasant city, with the single framework: the landscapes of the scrap-metal and the fertile grounds of the truck farming yield the place to 2500 hectares of soft marsh to the contact with water of Bay of Bourgneuf and Noirmoutier.

The Valley of Clisson swarms with monuments, modest or prestigious, which all testify to a past rich and high colors, and illustrate an exceptional history.

City with the architectural heritage of exception and the re-elected gastronomy, Nantes town of art of history is characterized by its quality of life and its environment. Capital of the Country-of-the-Loire, Nantes is located at the center of an agglomeration of more than 500.000 inhabitants who constitutes with Saint-Nazaire, the metropolis of the great West of France. Turned towards the future, the City of the Dukes and the urban Community of Nantes directed themselves resolutely towards new technologies and the research which make the pride of the university and an agglomeration in full demographic rise.

Saint-Nazaire, it is the history of a river which takes its source with the borders of the Cevennes and comes to embrace, to 1012 kilometers towards the West, the Atlantic Ocean. Our history, it is first of all that of the men, only men who build not far from here a city, a port with crossed roads, rivers and of the Loire: Nantes which, during centuries, has outer harbours of trade in Bourgneuf in Retz, Croisic and Paimboeuf. Salt, the wine, the various and manufactured goods forward then towards the remote ports of the North and the south of Europe.

To see: Ecomuseum Saint-Nazaire