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Once the capital of Brittany, Nantes
was transferred to the Pays de la Loire
in 1962 and is France's sixth largest
city and an important university town,
with good museums, parks and lots of
places to eat and drink out.
Nantes, one of France's regional
capitals, is a major seaport near the
mouth of the Loire River in Northwest
France.
Now home to high-tech industries, it
was in Nantes in 1598 that Henri IV
signed the best-known Edict of Nantes,
ensuring the civil rights and freedom of
French Protestants, only to have it
revoked by Louis XIV.
City Area: 65.19 km2
(25.18 mi2)
Population: 245,000 (495,000 in
urban area)
Country: France
Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1 (Central
European)
Telephone Area Code: 40 |
