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Tourism Saint-Herblain
Saint-Herblain (Sant Ervlan in Breton) is a French commune, located in the department of Loire-Atlantique and the Pays de la Loire region in western outskirts of Nantes. With 43,516 inhabitants in 2007, it is the third joint of the department.
To visit:
- The castle of Gournerie, old mansion and its chapel of the sixteenth century.
- Park Gournerie with two lakes. Inside the park is the agricultural college Jules Rieffel, built in 1988.
- The castle of Bégraisière, its ruins, its sham and park.
- Park Bégraisière within which is the library of Saint-Herblain
- The church of the fifteenth century and reformed in the late nineteenth century and the cross glued to the church on the south and also dating from the fifteenth century. the church which is classified a historical monument is situated in a typical village.
- The old quarry (which opened in 1950 and was closed in the mid-80s) is now around a lake with a park of several hectares and an auditorium.
- Park Bourgonnière where the swimming pool, the retirement home, college Anne of Brittany. The castle was destroyed in 2006 to expand the retirement home there remains a small part. The castle was used in the early twentieth century hospice that was run by nuns
- The old farm located in the Maraudière, near the village, which dates from the sixteenth century, making it one of the oldest buildings in town
- The valley, all the marshes between Saint Herblain Indre and, before the waste collection center for Tougas there was much more than now flooded.It is through this valley they brought it's food to food Indre, it was also used to harvest cane.
- the last farm in St-Herblain, located Orvasserie
- The Peace Monument, Boulevard François Mitterrand, done in 2000 by the sculptor Pierre Garcon
- The Monument to the abolition of slavery, Bd Allende, sculptor Gérard Voisin acquired in 2002.
Museums and monuments to visit
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Château des Ducs de BretagneThe Château des Ducs de Bretagne (Castle of the Dukes of Brittany), the ducal resistance against the royal power. The Château des Ducs de Bretagne with its great white stone fronts, stands ...
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chapelle sacré coeurChapel of Saint-Jean de Tréboul was built around 1840. It was completely rebuilt in the mid of XVIII century. It has elements of windows and doors of the XV and XVI century, which were ...
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